Word: hides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...avoid it. But so widespread was the doubt about Nixon's involvement in Watergate, so widespread the skepticism about the repeated White House denials, that a majority of Americans polled by TIME believed the President of the U.S. to be guilty of deceiving the public and trying to hide his own responsibility (see page...
...lies were designed, first, to conceal just how much money was paid to Wiretapper Liddy in advance of the Watergate bugging, as well as to hide the real purpose of the payments, and second, to cover up the fact that the arrested men were receiving monthly payments of between $1,000 and $3,000 each to keep quiet about the involvement of anyone else. According to the newspaper account, the former Nixon committee treasurer, Hugh W. Sloan Jr., tried to warn the President, but was cut off by Ehrlichman...
...many are buying Whalen's observations yet. But if they are true and that is the explanation for this bizarre episode, then what a terrible tragedy it is for Nixon and the nation that those men were allowed to hide in their offices and keep their special operation such a secret. Had we known more, Nixon might not stand so suspect today. Better yet, giving the President the benefit of every doubt, had there been less White House secrecy, Watergate might never have been conceived...
...said. "Unlike all other groups, except for Mayflower Wasps and American Indians, they are in a unique position. Blacks don't have a heritage except an American one. They are a people who have to make it because there's no place for them to run to, nothing to hide behind. It's more a question of class than of skin color...
Last year at the Eastern Sprints it was a pretty nice day and the weather, plus the promise of good racing, brough crew fans out from wherever it is they hide in droves. But, to tell the truth, most of the races weren't that exciting--unless you happened to be a sadistic Harvard lover...