Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Well, as I've said, we peaked too late. But I don't think anybody can draw any joy out of what has happened to the country. It does vindicate the judgment that I offered free of charge a year ago--that this is the most corrupt administration in American history. I think few people would question that now. But that's the kind of judgment that you don't want vindicated. It's sad that at a time when the country has so many difficult problems confronting it that we have that kind of leadership...
...Given that you did charge during the campaign that the Nixon administration was the most corrupt in American history, and given everything that's been revealed during the Watergate investigations, can we assume that you support Nixon's resignation or his removal from office by impeachment...
...Well, it verifies the judgment that I advanced a year ago that this was a corrupt administration, but there is other supporting evidence for that: the ITT fix, the milk sell-out, the wheat deal, the misuse of campaign funds, the violation of campaign contribution laws, the secret and unauthorized bombing and the denial of it--public denial of it. Those things all add to the corruption charge that go beyond what is sometimes called the Watergate sequence...
...Well, a year ago, when you were saying that Nixon's administration was the most corrupt in American history, you were called irresponsible. Now everyone is saying it, and your voice is not as loud as it once was in that regard. In fact, it's getting a little bit boring hearing everybody...
...forget than the rest of the country. There is more sorrow than anger over the President's transgressions, whatever they may be. Perhaps because of their own long history of resistance to the national Government, Southerners are less surprised or dismayed when that Government proves to be corrupt...