Word: breaking
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...devout Republican defenders on the House Judiciary Committee to recommend his impeachment) so garbled and murky as to be inconclusive. As Lasky sees it, if Nixon actually did get the CIA to impede the FBI's Watergate probe, his aim was not to keep investigators from linking the break-in to his re-election committee. Nixon tried to keep the burglars' cash from being traced, Lasky claims, solely because "it would have been embarrassing for major contributors who had been promised anonymity...
...point: the upset victory of Menachem Begin 's hard-line Likud coalition in Israel was bad news. Looking on the new Premier as a superhawk, they generally feared that his intransigence over Israel's borders and Palestinian demands for a homeland might bring on a break with Washington and a fifth war with the Arabs. Since Begin took office, however, there has been a remarkable change in opinion. Most American Jews now seem to admire him as a tough-minded patriot and support his government. What caused the change? Why did American Jews rally behind Begin so quickly...
...full package might not be returned. At CBS he was known as a hypochondriac who would run off about once a week for an EKG at Roosevelt Hospital. "He just doesn't have the capacity to relax," says a former CBS colleague. Just being around him "can make you break out in little beads of perspiration," adds the otherwise cool ABC vice president Ed Vane...
There is, doubtless, truth in what he says. His closest friends have noticed a mellowing since Freddie became a family man; by all accounts, he is a devoted husband and father, and he will often break off conversations to the West Coast with a sigh: "Gotta go home and tell the kids a story...
Individual characters are not crucial to soap opera, but broad-stroked action is. Washington packs in more instances of official malfeasance than even the series' marathon running time would lead one to expect. Covering a period from Lyndon Johnson's 1968 abdication speech to the Watergate break-in in 1972, Writers David W. Rintels and Eric Bercovici manage to dredge up White House wiretaps and enemies lists, CIA assassination plots, FBI domestic surveillance activities, L.B.J.'s love life, various dirty tricks of the 1972 campaign, C.R.P.'s convoluted money-laundering maneuvers - and more...