Word: auge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision to resign had probably been reached on Tuesday, Aug. 6, and firmed up on Wednesday. During his undecided hours he appeared gray and wretched. Once the decision was made, as has happened before when he finally resolved a crisis, Nixon seemed a different man. He seemed al most "serene," one aide said...
Just how to explain the transcripts publicly was a dilemma. Before the details were worked out, Nixon could conceivably change his mind. In a move that seemed designed to block any such possibility and to assess Congressional reaction, Haig and St. Clair on Friday, Aug. 2, asked the President's ablest defender on the House Judiciary Committee, California's Charles Wiggins, to come to the White House. He had never been in Haig's office before...
...cover-up holds through the summer. On Aug. 29, Nixon tells a news conference that Dean has conducted a thorough investigation and "I can say categorically that . . . no one in the White House staff, no one in this Administration, presently employed, was involved in this very bizarre incident." Dean never made such an investigation, according to his testimony months later. On Sept. 15, in a recorded Oval Office conversation, Nixon congratulates Dean: "The way you, you've handled it, it seems to me, has been very skillful, because you-putting your fingers in the dikes every time that leaks...
...Aug. 15, the President maintains: "Not only was I unaware of any coverup. I was unaware there was anything to cover up." Earlier, Ehrlichman and Haldeman tell the Senate committee that Dean was responsible for the coverup, and that they and the President are innocent. Aug. 22: Nixon terms Watergate "water under the bridge." But on Aug. 29, Sirica orders that he turn over tapes of the nine conversations subpoenaed...
...prices soared 6.4%, or 110.9% at an annual compound rate. The rise will surely push up supermarket prices in another month or two, particularly for red meat and poultry. Future prospects depend largely on the weather; the July jump reflected the early effects of the searing Midwestern drought (TIME, Aug. 12), which will reduce food supplies...