Word: hearsay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vice President decried what he termed irresponsible reporting of the Watergate affair by the news media. He said that the publication of "hearsay" has served to damage the reputations of those unjustly accused and to weaken the government's ability to prosecute and convict the guilty...
Leaks. There were widespread leaks to newsmen about McCord's charges-all of which seemed to be based on hearsay and were so far unsubstantiated. One committee member, Connecticut Republican Lowell P. Weicker Jr., publicly demanded the resignation of Haldeman, the President's chief of staff. Weicker claimed that Haldeman "probably" knew about an operation of political sabotage against the Democrats that was far broader than the Watergate eavesdropping...
...White House aide and re-election committee official who had also been convicted in the Watergate bugging. Other such information, he said, came from a former White House consultant, E. Howard Hunt Jr., who had pleaded guilty in the Watergate operation. Thus McCord's charges were based on "hearsay" that is not admissible evidence in a courtroom but was nevertheless invaluable to the committee, which is interested in the ethics of the political spying as much as in illegality...
English Bradshaw, president of the Black Student Union at the Ed School, recounted what he called "hearsay" reports which indicate that the Committee on Admissions is less concerned with lower-income minority students "now that the riots of the '60s are over...
This brought protests from the White House. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler charged that such reports were based "on hearsay, character assassination, innuendo or guilt by association." A White House release quoted Chapin as calling the reports "fundamentally inaccurate." Clark MacGregor, Nixon's campaign manager, insisted that "Dwight Chapin just simply was not involved in any way." He said such stories were inspired by "George McGovern and his partner in mudslinging, the Washington Post...