Word: pranks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gillerman said the GSA maintained that the original Maguire material was exempt from the freedom of Information Act and did not have to be released. The lawyer will contest the agency's claim at 3 p.m. today in federal district court before Judge Prank J. Murray...
Carl Withers, president of the Shaker Heights Republican Club, is one of the remaining loyalists: "I consider Watergate in the category almost of a fraternity prank, where the victim got his hand caught in a barrel of chestnuts. The hiding of the break-in by underlings was not the type of crime that merits such severe punishment-considering the good deeds President Nixon has accomplished." People who agree with Withers-and even many who take a less charitable view-believe that Nixon has suffered enough. But many others are not prepared to forgive or forget. According to a California Poll...
...with burning rags. Six days later David Ignacio, his ribs crushed, died after a two-hour battle for breath. For the three white teen-agers who confessed to the murders, their sin was locally viewed by Indian haters as mainly one of degree. Harassing drunken Indians is considered a prank by Farmington high-schoolers...
...Expletive deleted] Of course, I am not dumb and I will never forget when I heard about this [adjective deleted] forced entry and bugging. I thought, what in the hell is this? What is the matter with these people? Are they crazy? A prank! But it wasn't! It wasn't very funny. I think our Democratic friends know that, too. They know what the hell it was . . . They don't think I would be involved in such stuff . . . They think I have people capable of it. And they are correct, in that Colson would do anything...
...Nixon is the first to admit even humor has its limits. "I will never forget when I heard about this [adjective deleted] first bugging," Nixon remarks. "I thought, what the hell is this? What is the matter with these people? Are they crazy? I thought they were nuts! A prank! But it wasn't! It wasn't very funny! I think that our Democratic friends know that, too." Nevertheless, on occasion even John W. Dean III--generally consigned by the transcribers to the thankless role of a suck-up straight man--rises to Nixonian heights of sarcasm. "We were bugged...