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...allegations made against Nixon when the impeachment inquiry began last winter. He eliminated from further study Nixon's refusal to spend certain funds appropriated by Congress, his efforts to dismantle the Office of Economic Opportunity and 13 charges of using Government agencies to harass Administration enemies and reward campaign contributors...
...textile mills of Lawrence struck in protest against a cut in hourly pay imposed by the wool trust. They had ample reason to rebel. Child labor was usual, disease was rampant, and both wages and working conditions were deteriorating. Soon after the strike began, Massachusetts sent in militia to harass the workers and to break the Industrial Workers of the World strike. Large numbers of these troops were Harvard students whom President Lowell released from finals in order to protect the property of his fellow textile magnates. As an aristocratic Boston observer noted at the time. "They rather enjoyed going...
This security has allowed Hoffa to minimize the personal impact of prison on himself, to deny that the indignity of being in prison actually affected him deeply. "I don't get harassed by nobody in or out of prison. I'm not the kind of a fellow who people want to harass, because I can get along with anybody. But I can disagree with anybody and if it comes to a disagreement I won't be second...
Some grand juries are merely rubber stamps for prosecutors, who use the institution's wide-ranging powers of subpoena to harass suspects against whom they have little real evidence. But several members of the Watergate grand jury have acquired such expertness and shown such diligence in questioning witnesses that they have become true partners of Leon Jaworski and the other prosecutors. Once last spring the jury members were so intent on their deliberations that they stayed in session until midnight, when they discovered that the cleaning people had locked them in. It took ten minutes of shouting and pounding...
...mail covers and espionage against dissenters, political opponents, journalists and federal employees; 3) the dangling of a high federal post to the judge in the Ellsberg-Pentagon papers trial; and 4) the attempted use of FBI investigations, income tax audits by the Internal Revenue Service and other threats to harass political "enemies." The list is long, disturbing and familiar, and the conduct hard to condone...