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...federal grand jury had named the President as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate cover-up case - the first official citation of direct criminal association ever brought against a U.S. President. Adding to Nixon's judicial problems, a federal judge openly, threatened to cite him for contempt of court. Last week's major actors and their roles...
...GESELL STUDIES CONTEMPT...
...well as a machine-breaker and Henry Miller, though he studied (on his own) enough science to pass ten Nat Sci courses still passionately wanted to dynamite the whole industrial face of Brooklyn and let the splinters fall into the polluted Hudson River. Familiarity didn't breed anything but contempt...
Along with an emerging picture of moral bankruptcy comes a frightening vision of basic contempt for the fundamentals of representative government and its sensitive institutions. It is one thing to suspect that an Administration could regard the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Internal Revenue Service as instruments of revenge. It is another thing to read a President's own words on getting back at political enemies through heavy retaliation. It is chilling...
...extent that Nixon is at all like L.B.J., he swears, as Johnson did, at least partly in order to show contempt for others, according to Dr. Michael Maccoby, a Washington psychoanalyst who has made a classification of cussers. "Both were lower-middle-class guys who made good. They felt that certain people were contemptuous of them, so they in turn were contemptuous of those they perceived to be their enemies...