Word: auge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your Aug. 20 cover asks "Can Trust Be Restored?" Yes, but we will have to wait until Inauguration...
...Until Nixon's Aug. 15 speech, it was possible that trust could be restored, and I hoped for it. After the speech, hope had vanished. Mr. Nixon wasted his last chance...
...what was considered his greatest opportunity to recover the mantle of decency for his office, President Nixon again failed us as a nation. Indeed, in his Aug. 15 speech, Mr. Nixon exhibited his most common and dangerous mistake to date -underestimating and, hence, insulting the intelligence and perception of the American people. How are we to depart from our "obsession with the past" when the President's obvious lack of courage and candor makes the events of Watergate a recurrent shadow upon our present-and future...
...might be a good time to look at the other side of the Watergate coin. To get specific, I am suspicious of the current attack on Vice President Spiro Agnew [Aug. 20]. The attack seems too well planned and all too well timed. I suspect that this is a calculated political effort by the media to lynch Agnew, even before a grand jury convenes...
...pleased to find that you had consulted my book, Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems, for light on the question "Can Nixon and Agnew Be Tried?" [Aug. 20]. But I regret that you attributed to me the view that the "double jeopardy clause might preclude prosecution for the same acts that caused a President to be removed from office." This suggests that I regard an impeachable offense as criminal in nature, from which it follows that a subsequent prosecution by indictment would be barred...