Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impeachment was a word uttered reticently, if at all, in connection with Watergate, and Senior Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil heard it only "occasionally from a Democratic Congressman here and there." Yet MacNeil, a veteran of 24 years on the Hill, soon became convinced that there was a most serious scandal afoot in the White House and that the House would ultimately look to its impeachment processes. Early last summer House Majority Leader "Tip" O'Neill, impressed with John Dean's testimony, alerted Peter Rodino to get ready for impeachment. MacNeil was privy to this behind-the-scenes preparation...
...impeachment action came at the end of a week in which the President's chances of completing his second term in office fell to their lowest point since the Watergate scandal first threatened his political survival. Earlier in the week, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Nixon had no authority to withhold tape recordings of his White House conversations from Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski (see page 20). The ruling raised the possibility that more evidence damaging to the President may become available...
Never in the 25-month history of the Watergate scandal had so much of the evidence been brought together in one place. The eight volumes of material released last week by the House Judiciary Committee assembled all the available bits and pieces of the Watergate mosaic: previously secret grand jury testimony furnished to the committee by Judge John Sirica, memos written by President Nixon and some of his high aides, Senate Watergate Committee testimony, tape recordings from the Oval Office, a presidential Dictabelt, and notes scrawled on legal-size pads in the President's irregular hand. The Judiciary Committee...
...Part 1 of the Judiciary Committee document details the formation of the "sophisticated intelligence-gathering system" that eventually led to the Watergate break-in and bugging. A second volume deals with the initial attempt to limit the case to the seven original burglars and their accomplices, while keeping the scandal away from the White House. A third section of two volumes focuses on the hush-money payments to Hunt and the continued cover-up efforts. The three-volume fourth section contains material on activities after March 22, 1973, emphasizing the role of President Nixon-whether he launched an investigation...
...closing ceremony last week, a reporter asked Sam Ervin why the committee had failed to state in its report any conclusions about the responsibility for the Watergate scandal. Ervin replied that it was possible to draw a picture of a horse in two ways. You could draw the picture of a horse, with a very good likeness. Or you could draw the picture and write under it, "This is a horse." Well, said Sam Ervin, "we just drew the picture...