Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been hastily summoned to the White House on Sunday morning, President Ford pardoned the anguished man whom he had succeeded only 30 days before. As a result, Richard Nixon no longer faces the threat of indictment, prosecution and even prison on federal charges arising from the still-festering Watergate scandal. Given the disclosure in the White House tapes that he had tried to cover up the Watergate burglary ever since June 23, 1972, he had faced the serious possibility of being charged with obstructing justice. For other acts while President, he had also faced federal indictment for tax fraud...
...resignation speech of Aug. 8, Nixon conceded "misjudgments," but insisted that they had been committed in the national interest. This week he confessed that he had been wrong in not acting more decisively on Watergate, "particularly when it reached the stage of judicial proceedings and grew from a political scandal into a national tragedy. No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and the presidency...
Those Kennedy supporters who believe that Chappaquiddick will fade from memory as the Nixon scandal fades had better do some fast re-evaluating. Here's one voter who will demand all the facts concerning that cover-up the moment Senator Kennedy announces his candidacy for President. Any other candidates, particularly Democrats, had better be damned certain they've looked through all their closets lest there be a skeleton lurking there...
...Judiciary Committee in its televised impeachment hearings, public approval of Congress climbed from 30% last April to 48% in August, according to a Gallup poll released last week. Overall, however, the Congress has not yet fully earned such a rise in confidence stemming from its handling of the Watergate scandal. It has yet to enact a single bill that would make future Watergate-type abuses of presidential authority and political campaigns less likely to occur...
...those members of Congress who argue that decent leadership, rather than new laws, will best preclude more Watergates. Indeed, as Nixon and many of his men have ruefully discovered, there are many adequate laws that can be applied to specific Watergate transgressions. Yet, after its thorough study of the scandal, the Senate Watergate committee suggested no fewer than 35 reforms, most of which would require congressional action. Explains Connecticut Republican Lowell P. Weicker Jr., one of that committee's most reform-minded members: "Ford is a fine man and I don't doubt for a minute that...