Word: coverups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last-ditch defenders in the U.S. would have been embarrassed to offer. The commentators referred several times to the "socalled Watergate affair" without once explaining it or even suggesting that Nixon had done anything to warrant removal from office. Neither Zamyatin nor Zorin ever mentioned the Watergate breakin, the coverup, the indictments of so many Nixon aides, the Nixon income tax imbroglio, the incriminating tapes, the articles of impeachment, or the falsehoods that the former President admitted in his fatal Aug. 5 statement...
...federal funds for private purposes, attempted bribery by milk producers, misprision of felony, subornation of perjury, obstruction of justice. This catalogue of crimes and misdeeds did not begin with the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, but were it not for that bungled burglary and the subsequent coverup, most or all of the offenses might have gone unnoticed and unpunished. Why the President allowed himself to become entrapped in the web of events that followed the crime is a puzzle. Indeed, there is a great deal about Watergate that will only be sorted out after much time...
...April 15, prosecutors tell Nixon that Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean and other White House officials are implicated in the coverup. Faced with the evidence against his top aides, knowing that Dean and Magruder are talking and concerned that the upcoming Senate hearings will cast even more suspicion on the White House, Nixon makes the first of a series of strategic retreats...
...President maintains: "Not only was I unaware of any coverup. I was unaware there was anything to cover up." Earlier, Ehrlichman and Haldeman tell the Senate committee that Dean was responsible for the coverup, and that they and the President are innocent. Aug. 22: Nixon terms Watergate "water under the bridge." But on Aug. 29, Sirica orders that he turn over tapes of the nine conversations subpoenaed...
...newspapers that had remained sympathetic to Rich ard Nixon-or at least open-minded about his guilt or innocence-were under growing pressure to change their positions. Last Wednesday morning the dam broke. In the aftermath of Nixon's latest disclosures about his involvement in the Watergate coverup, a number of major newspapers that had been on the fence called for Nixon's resignation or impeachment...