Word: coverups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Price, like Nixon in the David Frost interviews last spring, emphasizes the "humanitarian" calculations that entered into the President's decision to embark on the coverup. In retrospect, he says, it becomes easy to think that immediately after the events of June 17, 1972, Nixon should have said "O.K., let's get the truth out, everybody walk the plank." "There wouldn't have been much damage," Price says, "even if John Mitchell were involved. On the other hand, in human terms, I doubt if he could have done that." Price adds that he feels certain that Nixon would have...
Lasky has a better case in charging that Jack Kennedy enjoyed a relatively uncritical press. Too many Washington reporters were charmed by him and wanted to bask in Camelot favors. Yet whether their failure to report his hyperactive sex life was a coverup, as Lasky charges, is doubtful. Rightly or wrongly, the sexual excesses of politicians had not been seen as newsworthy until the advent of post-Watergate morality. It was hardly a partisan matter; widely rumored dalliances by F.D.R. and Ike went unreported too at the time. The bedtime habits of a President, moreover, are scarcely...
...Supreme Court last week. There would be no review, said the court, of the convictions of John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman-or of former Attorney General John Mitchell. All three had been convicted on Jan. 1, 1975 of a total of 14 felonies for their roles in the Watergate coverup, including obstruction of justice, conspiracy and perjury. They were sentenced to prison terms of from 30 months to eight years, with no possibility of parole for 2½ years...
...brutally gunned down on a Paris street. Since then, despite a government assertion that the case has been solved, what began as a shocker killing has grown steadily more sensational, with hints of unsavory business dealings, a secret sex life, police corruption and even a high-level political coverup. As the French press dug into the scandal with rare gusto, the case brought public trust in Giscard's government...
...possibility that Ford took a hand in aiding Nixon's effort to block an early investigation of Watergate by the House Banking Committee has not been foreclosed. It has not yet been established whether Ford was a witting accomplice in the coverup, but he certainly had been following Nixon's orders for four years without once questioning the motives behind those orders...