Word: intendancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and the implicit approval of his chosen special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, the stage is set for an all-out pursuit of the guilty: Democrat Cox, an aggressive Solicitor General in the Kennedy Administration, declared in Richardson's presence that he did not intend to "shield anybody, and I don't intend to be intimidated by anybody...
...election campaign, "unethical, as well as illegal, activities took place." To that, he added: "None of these took place with my specific approval or knowledge. To the extent that I may in any way have contributed to the climate in which they took place, I did not intend to; to the extent that I failed to prevent them, I should have been more vigilant." That is the closest Nixon has yet come to accepting personal blame for the Watergate crimes, and it is pretty close indeed. His careful use of the word "specific" could imply that he might have approved...
...monument, seemingly as solid as the Great Pyramid. In the year since Hoover's death, the FBI has been so riven by internal weaknesses and strife as a result of Watergate that it more closely resembles a disintegrating piece of the Dakota Badlands. Several of its top officials intend to retire in the next four weeks. The bureau's vaunted esprit de corps is in tatters, and the morale of its 8,700 agents has been shattered...
...there was to be no full "airing." Moreover, Haldeman and Ehrlichman would stay on his staff. It was then that Dean decided that the other three-Nixon, Haldeman and Ehrlichman-were trying to pin the entire cover-up on him. He issued his celebrated statement that he did not intend to become "a scapegoat" -and went to the Justice Department to talk to the prosecutors...
...intend to win," he said. "If Yale beats us, it will be an upset...