Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took The Washington Post 100 years, and Watergate, to make it into the bigtime among American newspapers. With the rise of Woodstein and the fall of Richard Nixon, The Post has become more widely read and more influential than ever before, partly because two best-selling books and a motion picture have turned a pair of its young reporters into millionaires and folk heroes...
...financed groups opposed to Allende, applied economic pressure on Chilean military forces to thwart Allende's selection, and discussed with the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. the support of candidates opposing Allende. The actions had been approved by the 40 Committee of the National Security Council under President Richard Nixon. But Helms had testified that the CIA had not tried to influence the election. All the efforts failed in any event, as Allende won narrowly in September...
Four years ago, a retired lawyer named Raoul Berger was catapulted from obscurity to national prominence by providing an important part of the constitutional interpretations leading to Richard Nixon's downfall. His book Impeachment, begun in 1969 with only the problem of bad federal judges in mind, happened to roll off the presses during the Ervin committee hearings in 1973; it forcefully argued that proof of a criminal violation was not required to remove a federal official. A year later the Harvard-based Berger published Executive Privilege, which demolished the President's cited historical precedents for withholding evidence...
...being powerful and killing people. Before he turned 16 he confided to a friend that he would like to kill President Eisenhower "because he was exploiting the working class." After Lee shot at and very nearly killed General Walker, Marina became convinced that he intended to murder Richard Nixon. Her own life was in jeopardy. During the eleven months preceding the Kennedy assassination, Lee repeatedly beat up his wife and raped her when she was in the last stages of her second pregnancy. When she failed to cook a dish of beans and rice to his satisfaction, he tried...
...once placed on the record the former CIA chief's criminality and also protected national security secrets from disclosure in an open federal courtroom. This rationale neglects some of the larger questions attending the Helms case that clearly justified a fullfledged indictment and trial of the one-time Nixon enforcer. An unprecedented trial of Helms would have gone a long way towards completely fleshing out the fragmented story of CIA intervention in Chile during the administration of Salvador Allende. And the prospect of seeing Helms squirming under the rigors of cross-examination would have dramatized the issue of the executive...