Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Justice Department failed to unravel the Watergate cover-up in the summer and fall of 1972. One of its first witnesses will be Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen. Nixon put him in full charge of the Watergate investigation last spring after Richard Kleindienst, then Attorney General, withdrew because the probe's targets included some of his close friends and former associates...
...cynical President, chiefly bent on manipulating associates and plotting strategies to keep himself isolated and insulated from Watergate. The transcripts showed a President creating an environment of deceit and dishonesty, of evasion and coverup. In public, Nixon was pictured as detached, too busy with affairs of state to probe Watergate. In private, the transcripts showed that he wanted to know every detail of the scandal's effect on the press and public. Stratagems were devised; "scenarios" were roughed out and rehearsed. Answers were shaped for questions sure to be asked...
Fleet Street's timidity seemed well intact recently when the pro-Tory Daily Mail held off publishing the results of its probe into a land-profiteering deal involving two associates of Labor Party leader Harold Wilson (TIME, April 15 and April 22) until after the February election. But editors, who had been increasingly restless while watching American journalists pursue Watergate vigorously, decided to be sheep no longer. On April 3, a month after Wilson returned to power as Prime Minister, the Mail and Daily Express both broke front-page stories on the transaction. Enraged, Wilson issued libel writs against...
Behind the Lines. NET's weekly probe of the American press. Tonight: How ethical are newspaper and TV reporters and editors? Should they accept free junkets from those they cover? Endorse commercial products? Take public stands on political issues? Interviews with Walter Cronkite, Harrison Salisbury, and Tom Wicker. Ch. 2, 8 p.m. 1 hour...
...University of Maryland dropout, Woodward was a smooth Yalie who drove a 1970 Karmann-Ghia and smelled of ivied clubs. To Woodward, also 30, the shaggy Bernstein symbolized one of those unseemly counterculture journalists. But when they accepted the Pulitzer Prize in May 1973 for their pioneering probe of the Watergate scandal, it was obvious that the odd couple made an ideal journalistic team...