Word: coverups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joint session of Congress, delivered an effective 40-minute preamble, but his five-minute speech on the State of Richard Nixon was grossly inaccurate [Feb. 11]. We have already suffered under five years of Watergate: three while it was operating secretly as Administration policy, a fourth during the covert coverup, and the fifth one of a cover-up of the coverup. That's five years too much...
Mainly Watergate-the break-in and the coverup. There are also some documents in other areas...
...cited by Weicker, the four participants at that March 22 meeting with Nixon testified that Nixon did not question them about Dean's claim that each was implicated in the coverup. According to H.R. Haldeman, the discussion centered on "approaches to dealing with the situation rather than a review of the facts...
...impeachment would vastly increase if another Watergate bombshell burst over Nixon's head. Says one key Republican: "If, for example, it were shown that the President had anything to do with the 18-minute erasure, or that he was directly involved in any other aspect of the coverup, all bets against impeachment would...
...American people are still undecided about what to do with Richard Nixon. The latest polls indicate a profound disenchantment with the man and a distrust of his motives: only 27% of the public approve of his current performance in office; 67% think that he knew about the Watergate coverup; 59% feel that 18½ minutes of a crucial tape were deliberately erased because they would have proved his involvement in the coverup. A year ago, the idea of impeaching the President was anathema to great numbers of Americans. There remains a nagging reluctance...