Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thinly disguised warning, the head of Nixon's first investigation of the Watergate affair insisted that he would not become a "scapegoat...
...IRRC or other groups convince the Corporation committee on shareholder responsibility that Mobil isn't adhering to these principles now, Harvard will probably support this resolution too; otherwise it will probably oppose it as a "Have-you-stopped-beating-your-wife" affair...
WEDNESDAY: Intermezzo. (1939) Ingrid Bergman's first American role in a love story adopted from an earlier Swedish film has her playing next to Leslie Howard in a bittersweet affair between a concert violinist and a young pianist...
Those questions go, of course, to the heart of just how much Nixon can be hurt by the whole sordid affair. A survey conducted for the Wall Street Journal by a Princeton, N.J., polling firm disclosed last week that Watergate is arousing widespread concern and is seriously damaging the President and his party. Clearly, Nixon and his staff are going to have to face up to the consequences of Watergate and the manner in which the President's re-election campaign was conducted. It is not enough to issue indignant denials and then claim that aides can discuss...
...Ervin has the broad support of not only the Senate's Democratic liberals but also its Democratic conservatives and many Republicans. Nixon's secretive handling of the Watergate affair has dismayed his strongest backers. Republican office holders feel that they are being needlessly tarred by Watergate and want the real culprits exposed. Also, many Congressmen disdain such intimate Nixon aides as John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman and their assistants, who are often regarded by veteran politicians as arrogant, inexperienced and selfishly protective of the President. Noting that some members of the White House staff seem to be enmeshed...