Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called into question his competence. He had apparently needlessly, even recklessly, squandered some of that precious public trust that is so vital to every President. By associating himself so personally with the welfare of his discredited predecessor, he had allowed himself to be tainted by Watergate?a national scandal that the courts, prosecutors and Congress had labored so long and effectively to expose and resolve...
...submerged. Yet it is not too much to hope that Ford, jolted by the equally understandable objections to his high handed action, now appreciates the larger perspective. If he does not now join in those efforts to see that the full truth of America's most devastating political scandal is preserved and published, he runs the high risk that his own historical record will be linked to that of the discredited President who selected him as his successor. It is a fate that the nation, for its own sake and his, does not wish upon the 38th President...
...island of stability, and not only in Latin America. Regard your own circumstances: in eleven years, one President assassinated, countless riots, assaults and kidnapings, a long and unjust war waged against the will of the people, the highest officials of the Executive Branch on trial, and political scandal as a way of life. The "island of stability" to which your article refers prevails throughout the Western Hemisphere...
...media," he said, "flourish under scandal, disaster, tumult in any form they can get it . . ." Further, U.S. journalism virtually alone caused the "death of the civil rights movement." Epstein rapped newsmen for the decline in the quality of presidential campaigns and objected to "those odious Exxon and Mobil...
Moses was unfazed by the scandal. He resigned some posts but took on the presidency of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair and botched it aesthetically and financially. Efforts to control him, or ease him out, increased-and failed...