Word: coverups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon's role in the Watergate coverup: "I had expected to find all sorts of wrongdoing by his aides, conduct unbecoming and even criminal, but it had never occurred to me that the President was in the driver's seat...
...Nixon's enemies list. Only on the issues of abortion, gun control and busing-all of which he opposes-has Schweiker deviated from the liberal canon. A student of the John Kennedy assassination, Schweiker embarrassed himself last October by impetuously calling previous investigations of the murder "a coverup" and predicting that the Warren Commission Report would collapse "like a house of cards...
...reign to the Lockheed prosecutors, while his longtime L.D.P. opponent Tanaka could only be hurt. But Miki also recognized that the Japanese public, long ago sickened by the lavish spending of Japanese politicians-and keenly impressed by the U.S.'s forthright handling of Watergate-would not tolerate a coverup...
...their efforts to portray the Communists as red devils, the DC employed not only the politics of the coverup, but the politics of terror. Recent investigations have indicated that the escalating series of unexplained bombings and attacks (beginning in late 1969--suspiciously soon after the strikes--with the explosion in Piazza Fontana in Milan, including bombings of trains in the summer of 1974, and most recently, the killing of a state prosecutor in Genoa) all of which the government attributed to extremist groups of the left, may actually have been planned by the Italian secret service...
...hill on which his company was camped--a terrible mistake, but not a criminal one. Bryan is satisfied, but the Mullens, still suspicious, are not; as he explained last week, "They trusted me, and in some sense they think I betrayed them--that I became part of the coverup...