Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME's criticism of Victor Lasky's It Didn't Start with Watergate [Sept. 12] is unjustified and completely ignores the author's premise. While, according to the book, F.D.R., Kennedy, Johnson and the like committed infractions of far less magnitude and quantity than Richard Nixon, the fact that they got away unscathed only allowed succeeding Presidents to abuse their power further. Lasky is right: it didn't start with Watergate-Nixon's list of abuses was only a sum total of what had been going on for years...
...poor, dear, dead Martha Mitchell [Sept. 12] is to blame for Watergate. I didn't think it possible for Richard Nixon to sink lower, but he surely has hit rock bottom this time. God indeed rest and refresh the soul of this valiant and martyred lady...
...sense of history, and he had good-sense guts. Ike had perhaps the most refined sense of honor of any modern President. He trusted the system, he trusted the American people, and they in turn returned that trust. John Kennedy had style, some substance and a lot of combativeness. Nixon knew power and the world, and for a spell that appeared to be enough. Jerry Ford vetoed bills and kept his cool, and there emerged from even his limited presidency the sense of a man wielding power...
...word, Helms instructed CIA operatives to contact the most powerful elements in the Chilean Right that fall, hoping to pressure Allende's opponents into staging a military coup that would abort the Popular Unity government's planned experiment in democratic socialism. In the course of carrying out Nixon's orders, the CIA developed a very special relationship with an American multinational worried about the fate of its massive Chilean investments--the International Telephone and Telegraph Company...
...former intelligence chief might expose details of the CIA's operations in Chile and other national security materials relating to the Allende years. To complicate the decision facing Bell and the Carter administration, Helms reportedly told Justice Department investigators in 1974 that he would name Kissinger as the Nixon administration official who ordered Helms to perjure himself before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during its February, 1973 confirmation hearings on Helms's appointment as ambassador to Iran. Kissinger just happened to be paying a visit to the White House--ostensibly to advise Carter on the upcoming battle on Capitol Hill...