Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hedley Donovan's Essay on "The Good Uses of the Watergate Affair" [May 14] is the most brilliant, illuminating and sustained dissection of the strength that is the American democratic "system" that the free world at large has ever had the good fortune to read, ponder and digest. CHARLES H. SMITH Hamilton, Bermuda...
...know the cliché that the wife is the last to know about her husband's affair. Why, then, is it inconceivable that President Nixon was uninformed about the activities of his subordinates? ANITA LOIS MCDERMOTT Roanoke...
...shocked and disturbed to find my photograph on page 23 of your May 14 issue along with others alleged to be involved in the Watergate affair and its alleged subsequent coverup. As private trial counsel to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President and other related committees since June 22, 1972, I have vigorously defended my clients in civil litigation in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and shall continue to do so. The words placed under my photograph suggest that I am guilty of illegal acts and unethical conduct, and I again state...
...Andrew Johnson from office in 1868 had such grave consequences for American political life in the last half of the 19th century that the use of impeachment to redress presidential misconduct fell into general disrepute. Presidential impeachment became so moot a point during the 100 years after the Johnson affair that scholars failed to give the subject any extensive consideration...
...sticks of dynamite that could blow the scandal skyhigh. The fuses were lit, and the first reached flash point as Convicted Wiretapper James W. McCord Jr. directly accused Richard Nixon of participating in attempts to conceal the involvement of his closest political associates in the sordid and still-spreading affair...