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Shockley was especially interested in press coverage of the debate; he held what he called a "tutorial" beforehand, at which he urged reporters to familiarize themselves with his theories so they could "go out and do an uncover job just like Watergate, because the coverup going on is of greater significance than Watergate...
...Editors convention, showed that 55% of the public still did not believe Nixon's claim that two of the tapes never were made. A plurality (47% to 27%) believed that the two tapes were destroyed because they would have revealed the President's complicity in the Watergate coverup. More seriously, the percentage of Americans wanting Nixon to resign his office rose to 43%, a sharp climb from 36% in October...
...ground. But the crew decided to keep quiet: "It's just between you, me and the couch," said Pogue. There was only one hitch: the astronauts forgot that all conversations in the command module were being taped and later piped to the ground. After discovering the coverup, Chief Astronaut Alan Shepard, who had modestly stretched NASA rules by smuggling some golf balls along on his Apollo 14 moon trip, took to the microphone in Mission Control and issued a mild reprimand. Replied the Skylab commander, Marine Lieut. Colonel Gerald Carr: "O.K., Al, I agree with...
...radicals. He established the "plumbers" unit, ostensibly to plug leaks, and it used illegal methods (wiretaps, forgery) to embarrass or spy on political foes. He impeded an investigation of the plumbers on specious national-security grounds while his aides tried to use the CIA and FBI to help the coverup...
Last spring, just as the Senate Watergate hearings began, TIME correspondents interviewed citizens in five diverse communities to sample reactions to the break-in and coverup. They found that with few exceptions, people were confused by the charges and countercharges. Some claimed that they were losing interest; others insisted that previous Administrations had done similarly scandalous things but had not been caught. Nearly everyone thought that impeachment was too fearful a prospect to be considered seriously (TIME, May 28). Last week correspondents returned to the same people in the same communities to find out how public attitudes have changed after...