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Again and again the Crimson would harass the MIT side of the turf but did not get any solid shots off. A flurry of shots towards the end of the half gave MIT a scare but could not produce another goal. While Harvard had ten shots in the first half and five corner kicks, MIT was allowed seven shots on goal and one corner kick...
Watergate raised troublesome questions in the public mind: Can citizens ever really know what is going on in their Government? Can they ever really call it to account? Can they prevent the use of their own instruments of self-government to coerce and harass them? Has the public process been wholly corrupted by the underground link between money and politics? Does the Constitution effectively secure our liberties...
...Judiciary Committee's 440-page book of evidence on the Nixon Administration's repeated attempts to use the nation's tax-collecting machinery to harass political opponents and reward political friends shows an unprecedented abuse of the Internal Revenue Service. The White House targets for tax punishment ranged from such respected organizations as the Ford Foundation and Brookings Institution to such radical groups as Students for a Democratic Society and the Black Panthers. A variety of individuals selected for special scrutiny included Lieut. General James M. Gavin, Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford, Economist Walter W. Heller and Actress Shirley MacLaine...
Finally, the brief tried to rebut charges that Nixon used the IRS machinery to harass political opponents. St. Clair contended that if Nixon's aides wrote memos to IRS officials seeking special tax treatment of political opponents, no such tax harassment was actually carried out. Ironically, the brief cited the "highly principled" character of the President's appointed IRS commissioners as substantiation that no White House pressure influenced them...
...first term. Even the cartoonist Herblock, long one of Nixon's cruelest antagonists, observed the traditional honeymoon accorded new Presidents by giving the man a decent shave. Nixon hardly reciprocated. He installed an arrogant press secretary who treated the press shabbily. He dispatched Spiro Agnew and other sappers to harass the enemy. Aides like Clay Whitehead and Charles Colson sought to stifle network commentary as unfair...