Word: crooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...burglary of the Democratic National Committee? The President himself has told us not to think that he was that dumb. (A reassurance followed recently by another, when for the first time in history, a president of the United States felt compelled to announce to the nation: "I'm no crook." Mr. Nixon's rhetoric is as infelicitous as his record...
...KENNEDYS. In 1960, when John Kennedy was running for the presidency, Truman recalled, it was not the Pope he was afraid of moving into the White House. It was the Pop. "Old Joe Kennedy is as big a crook as we've got anywhere in this country, and I don't like it that he bought his son the nomination for the presidency. He bought West Virginia. I don't know how much it cost him; he's a tightfisted old son of a bitch; so he didn't pay any more than...
...aspects of the entire affair, including his nonexistent tapes, his large tax deductions, his personal finances and his dealings with dairy producers. If there was little new in this, it was extraordinary to hear the President declare: "The people have to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I have earned everything I've got." He had "never profited from public service," Nixon said. "And in all my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice...
Charlie mediates between him and Michael, a petty crook full of ambition but lacking Charlie's family connections. He mimics George Raft, and is sulky and dangerous when he thinks he's being crossed. Charlie appears to have some compassion for both, just as he appears to have some understanding of his girlfriend's (Teresa, the film's only unconvincing portrait) epilepsy. Associating with these people hurts Charlie's "career", because he has to stay in good with Uncle and the traditional ideal of "honorable men." On the surface, then, he stands out as heroic...
SPIRO AGNEW, a lesser crook in the Nixon den of thieves, ended his farewell address to the nation on a note of reassurance. Quoting from a remark made by James A. Garfield upon the assassination of President Lincoln, Agnew said. "Fellow citizens, God reigns and the government in Washington still lives...