Word: coverups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from behind the walls of San Clemente the delusion goes on. Richard Nixon is not escaping anything. He has fed his Watergate cancer. He has cast himself for his remaining years as an unrepentant criminal. He must now live a continuing coverup...
...least one of the Watergate defendants has already indicated that he wants Nixon to testify as a defense witness. Before Ford's pardon, Ehrlichman subpoenaed Nixon to testify, hoping apparently that Nixon would support his claim that he was led into thinking that national-security considerations justified the coverup...
Evidence surfaced that the U.S. attorney learned of the perjury several days before an appeal of the case went to the Supreme Court, but did not inform the justices of it. Dershowitz claimed the prosecution's omission was made intentionally as part of a "coverup." The judge, who had previously worked in the U.S. attorney's office, told Dershowitz he might institute the disciplinary proceedings if the "deadly serious charge" was not proved...
...rationalizations were just a coverup for the larger issue: the equal admission of men and women, the logical next step for an institution whose tradition could no longer be described as exclusively male...
...does the Kremlin bother with what amounts to its own fantastic Watergate coverup? Aside from protecting Brezhnev, the outrageous distortions of what really happened to Nixon are obviously tailored to fit the official conspiratorial view of the U.S. system. Says one Western diplomat in Moscow: "It jibes with what are probably their basic beliefs about how America operates. It also fits the deep-rooted Slavic feeling about plots." Adds a Scandinavian official posted in the Soviet capital: "No one wants to raise the question of popular pressure bringing down a government that lies. Imagine what that could mean here...