Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because the affair was so important to Phil and his family," Levin said. "It was a farce because B.U.'s lawyers and hearing examiners tried to lend the accoutrements of a trial to a procedure that violated every premise of due process...
Even Latin American experts with reason to be skeptical of Nixon Administration statements on Chile tend to believe that the U.S. was not involved. Educator Ralph Dungan, who was Lyndon Johnson's Ambassador to Chile, contends that in the wake of Watergate and the ITT affair, the CIA would have been almost excessively cautious about getting involved in so potentially embarrassing an international scandal. "It all suggests to me that there was probably no mucking around," he says...
Lillian Hellman has had the kind of life that Zelda Fitzgerald and many another lost lady wanted and thought she deserved. Hellman drank with the big boys, but held her liquor and her health. Her 30-year love affair with Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon) was the kind of tough-tender romance that Hemingway daydreamed about in his novels. Most important, she had a successful career as a playwright: twelve Broadway plays, eight of them hits, and one, The Little Foxes, a classic...
Watergate is America's Dreyfus Affair, a symptom of moral decay. During the Ervin hearings, Nixon aide after Nixon aide demonstrated to all the world the distance that has developed between the cause of the president of the United States and the cause of justice...
...also a phenomenon which demands Nixon's impeachment. The Yamashita precedent--set when a Japanese general was hanged (by American justice) for crimes his troops committed--is inapplicable for anything but political crimes. Yet political crimes are what the American Congress faces when it confronts the Watergate affair and other comparable incidents in Nixon's presidency. As Mitchell has pointed out, he did not expect to personally profit by anything he did. As Jeb Stuart Magruder has claimed, he did what he did because he believed it to be justified by political necessity. The political nature of these crimes must...