Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former President concedes too that he had misjudged the impact of charges leveled against him by his counsel, John Dean, whom he fired in the spring of 1973. The most serious was Dean's persuasive claim that Nixon had approved hush-money payments to the Watergate burglars in a White House meeting that March 21. "I went off on a tangent by concentrating all our attention and resources on trying to refute Dean. But it no longer made any difference that not all of Dean's testimony was accurate. It only mattered if any of his testimony...
...families throughout the commonwealth of Massachusetts... they're unanimous in that they are indicating to me that they are tired as hell and they don't want to take it anymore." The public erupted. State Sen. Alan Sisitsky, Senate chairman of the committee, hammered his gavel to hush the applause. "We do have rules that govern legislative proceedings," Sisitsky said, "that are different from the rules that may govern talk shows and with respect to the rules that govern legislative proceedings we hear people that support legislation and people that oppose legislation, and the legislation pending before us is House...
Wallenda had no sooner started than a gust of wind made the cable vibrate. Wallenda stopped, steadied himself. A hush fell over the crowd...
...Says MacNeil: "The mood in the great hall as the roll was called was one of awe. Rarely is a vote so important that those present fall into such a silence, and there has not been one in Congress like this since the House Judiciary Committee, in a similar hush, voted the first article of impeachment against Richard Nixon...
...Education and thus continue to qualify for federal funds. Flood's former administrative assistant, Stephen Elko, admitted receiving a $15,000 kickback from the schools, and was convicted in Los Angeles last fall of bribery, perjury and obstruction of justice. Elko claimed that he received $25,000 in hush money from Flood's friends. But in exchange for a reduced sentence, Elko agreed to provide evidence against his former boss. According to Elko's account, Flood received $100,000 in cash and bank stock from the schools and other organizations that obtained federal financing with his help...