Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...develop once again a coherent legislative policy. The leftover Nixon legislative program is a shambles. There is no energy policy. Attempts at a foreign trade bill, welfare reform and land-use legislation have bogged down. In what promises to be a protracted honeymoon period, and the President undistracted by scandal, such programs can presumably be pushed forward again...
When the nation's worst political scandal finally rendered the presidency of Richard Nixon inoperative, it did so with savage swiftness. Hopelessly entrapped in the two-year tangle of his own deceit, forced into a confession of past lies, he watched the support of his most loyal defenders collapse in a political maelstrom, driven by their bitterness over the realization that he had betrayed their trust. Yet, as throughout his self-inflicted Watergate ordeal, Nixon remained unwilling to admit, perhaps even to himself, the weight of his transgressions against truth and the Constitution. He was among the last...
When Nixon was considering resigning from the Republican ticket in 1952 over a campaign-funding scandal, Pat helped persuade him to stay on. "If you do not fight back but simply crawl away, you will destroy yourself," he later quoted her as having told him. Three minutes before he went on the air with his famous Checkers speech, he faltered again, telling her that he did not think he could do it. "Of course you can," she replied. "Pat is not a quitter," he told a nationwide TV audience minutes later. "After all, her name was Patricia Ryan...
Many nations had feared that the Watergate scandal posed a fundamental threat to the power of the American presidency, but even before Nixon's resignation that concern had been largely dispelled. In Europe and other areas it became obvious that the President-and not the presidency-was under attack. The turning point came last spring, with the release of the first batch of the Watergate tapes. Said a leading member of Britain's Conservative Party: "When we began to hear those tapes, [Nixon's] authority disappeared, and we knew his position would crumble anyway." The final fading...
...harshest sentence yet meted out to a former top Nixon aide convicted in the Watergate scandal. But, Gesell told Ehrlichman, except for "the many affirmative aspects of your life, the sentence would have been far more severe." Ehrlichman had told Gesell earlier: "I believe that I am the only one in this room who really knows if I am guilty or not guilty. Your Honor, I am innocent of each and every one of the charges in this case." Unmoved, Gesell snapped back: "The court accepts the verdict of the jury." Gesell characterized the Fielding break-in as a "shameful...