Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President was earnestly in action, the former President departed, and a Watergate-weary nation was eager to turn the scandal over to the historians. But one of Watergate's lessons was that the U.S. legal processes, once activated, cannot be turned on and off with a twist of a judicial wrist. Already it was apparent last week that Citizen Nixon was enmeshed in criminal litigation and that the nation still faces an unwanted decision on what legal toll should yet be exacted of its deposed leader...
...liberal Republican who had already spent about $180,000 campaigning for the top spot on the party's 1976 slate, said that his candidacy has been put "on the back burner and maybe into the deep freeze." Similarly, other leading Republicans who remained untainted while the Watergate scandal was under way have ironically been victimized by the end of the affair. California Governor Ronald Reagan and New York's Nelson Rockefeller have little chance now for 1976. Indeed, it would take a near disaster to drive Ford out and open the door to others...
Kennedy supporters argue that he was the most damaged of all Democrats while Watergate was in full and odious bloom, since the sins of Nixon and his men called attention to Kennedy's own clinging scandal- Chappaquiddick. But, they continue, as Nixon's scandal fades, Kennedy's will fade with...
...last dark days of the Watergate scandal appeared to add new impetus to the growing disaffection in America. Yankelovich found that 32% of those polled-up 5 percentage points in three months-were motivated by a strong sense of social resentment that was likely to influence their politics. It is resentment, rather than economic conditions, that binds the group together. Indeed, only a third found themselves in economic distress, as defined by TIME Soundings...
...judge by the Soviet news treatment of Richard Nixon's fall from power, the former President was an innocent hounded from office by political enemies and the press. For months, Tass and Pravda completely ignored the scandal, presumably to avoid embarrassing Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev, who had personally aligned himself with Nixon in negotiating détente and who had three times held summit meetings with him. When the official press finally noted Nixon's resignation, it did so with such a mixture of fantasy and fallacy that an American would have a hard time recognizing the familiar...