Word: crooke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Agnew even managed to leave office quietly and to fade back into obscurity. Nixon thrashed about hideously for months, refusing to surrender his audio tapes and firing a special prosecutor and insisting that he was not a crook...
...fact that these two women are so different yet similar presents a lesson for us all. No matter what side of the political fence we happen to be on, it is healthy to stop and think about the things we have in common. MARGARET CROOK Boston...
...retiring Bennett Johnston. Considering his near political successes in the past, the other candidates may get a run for their money. Duke ran for Governor of Louisiana in 1991, and while he was defeated by Edwin Edwards (in a memoriable race that produced the slogan "vote for the crook, not the Nazi") he still received 39 percent of the vote. Duke also grabbed a resounding 44 percent of the vote in a run for the U.S. Senate in 1990. And last month, Republican Governor Mike Foster said he would support Duke if he became the GOP nominee. -->
Politicians realize that confronting an insult head-on starts voters thinking. At least, politicians should realize that if they were around in the Watergate era, when Richard Nixon made the mistake of saying, "I am not a crook...
...think [grass roots] is a front," said Fred McMurry, a resident of nearby Raymond, N.H. "[Alexander] is a crook...