Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this light, Ronald Reagan must be suffering terribly under the burden of his newfound image as "the next Richard Nixon." Apart from the fact that Reagan prefers more sympathetic roles, Watergate had the sort of genremaking freshness and glacial-paced unravelling of mystery, intrigue and sliminess that ensured it a unique place in the archives of presidential misadventure...
...TIME's coverage with an eye sharpened by experience as the magazine's Washington news editor during the Watergate crisis. A White House correspondent in 1982, Stacks grew familiar with Reagan's management style. Says he: "Reagan seems to have been in less control of his White House than Nixon was, so it is possible to believe Reagan's denials of involvement. Another difference is that this Administration seems to be moving to investigate itself...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff serving as advisers. As recently as John F. Kennedy's Administration, the NSC was a relatively small operation, with about a dozen employees. The duties of the agency, which now has a full-time staff of about 60, mushroomed under Henry Kissinger, who served Richard Nixon. Kissinger's best-remembered coup was his secret 1971 mission to Peking, which led to the establishment of U.S.-Chinese diplomatic relations...
...Watergate scandal escalated only because of Nixon's cover-up. His demise was the result, not of an "error" by his henchmen, but of his willful deceit, his lying to the American people...
Commenting on Reagan's precipitous decline inpopularity polls, Assistant Professor ofGovernment Henry E. Brady, an expert on thepolling of American political opinion, said,"There's never been as great a drop in publicopinion...not even during the Nixon years...