Word: caucuses
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When the Watergate hearings finally opened under the glare of TV lights in the palatial Senate Caucus Room, the question-and-answer ritual seemed half-remembered from past confrontations. Then, with unexpected suddenness, James McCord Jr., one of the convicted Watergate burglars, tried to tie the scandal to former Attorney General John Mitchell and to Richard Nixon: "I felt the President of the United States had set into motion this operation." It was, admittedly, only hearsay testimony, and Nixon, through his press secretary, once again vigorously denied his involvement. Even before the hearings started, however, the week had brought news...
...Watergate story was now being dramatized under the klieg lights of the crowded Senate Caucus Room and thrust into the living rooms of America. Figuratively, the testimony represented at least half a dozen 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...
...Watergate drama shifts this week to the marble-pillared, chandelier-lit Senate Caucus Room, scene of the Teapot Dome investigation and the Army-McCarthy hearings. Such is the demand for seats that for the first time in Senate history tickets are being issued for the 200 public places...
...position on ratification of Brandt's basic-relations treaty with East Germany, which was signed last December. The second was a bill empowering the West German government to apply for membership in the U.N.-a move that would coincide with East Germany's application. In a party caucus, Barzel won support for C.D.U. opposition to the treaty, but lost narrowly on his advocacy of a yes vote for U.N. membership. At that point, said a participant, "he turned chalk white." Muttering something about "consequences for the leadership," Barzel walked out of the meeting. Next morning he resigned...
Paul Gallagher, a member of the National Caucus of Labor Committees, said The Crimson "prints such scientifically worded, political drivel, but refuses to print the political positions of radical labor organizations...