Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman, knew as many of the secrets of the sordid affair as anyone else. Last week both men stepped forward for the first time to define their own roles in a small but crucial aspect of the case. Testifying before a Senate appropriations subcommittee on their dealings with the CIA, Haldeman and Ehrlichman proved short on memory but very long on devotion to national security as a justification for their actions-clearly taking their cue from the President's own curious and unsettling manifesto of the week before...
Richard Nixon's statement on the Watergate affair was a portrait of the ship of state with its hull full of holes inflicted by the crew. It was a view of the most powerful man on earth duped by his confidants-a kind of "pitiful giant," to repeat a phrase from his 1970 speech on Cambodia. Can this truly be the state of the presidency...
...long, slow process of building their case, the committee members were paternally patient, indulgent even, as they questioned, one after another, the fixers and followers and bearers of messages. As the witnesses testified, they soon revealed that they had been drawn into the affair without quite realizing what they were doing, that they were more adept at taking orders than understanding them. John J. Caulfield, an ex-cop who had carried an offer of Executive clemency to convicted Watergate Raider James W. McCord Jr., described how he had been "injected into this scandal," how he had been forced to choose...
Especially troubling to the business community is the suspicion that the President, who came to power with a reputation as an effective manager, has bungled the affair so badly as to prove himself an incompetent executive. Many businessmen feel that he chose his key subordinates unwisely and gave them too much power. "The people around Nixon were goddam fools," a California retailer was overheard to mumble. The mistakes were compounded, businessmen think, by an administrative scheme that kept the President isolated and uninformed-something no corporate executive could afford...
...Calder advances proof -direct testimony supported by persuasive circumstance-that Rosie was based on a woman named Ethelwyn Sylvia Jones. As Calder reconstructs it, she was the second daughter of a minor playwright, herself an actress, beautiful, intelligent, full-blown, artlessly warmhearted. Maugham met her in 1904. Their affair lasted until...