Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report is dismaying because it shows how easily some CIA employees were drawn into the scandal and, with too few questions asked, gave aid to lawbreakers and cooperated with dubious White House requests. In the process, the CIA was tarnished - along with virtually every other individual and agency connected with Watergate...
...Anger before the Scandal...
Thus the atmosphere was already charged?and the Nixon Administration had for years been using the press as a scapegoat?when reporters began investigating the five bunglers who burglarized the Democratic National Committee headquarters on June 17, 1972. That crime detonated the nation's greatest scandal and journalism's longest-running political story. Yet the tocsin sounded initially by the overwhelming majority of news organizations was neither sullen nor loud...
...never easy. The White House and the Committee for the Re-Election of the President produced tough, sweeping statements minimizing the scandal in general and denying individual exposé stories specifically. Three days after the breakin, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler refused to comment "on a third-rate burglary attempt." Nixon himself assured the public "categorically" that "no one in the White House staff, no one in this Administration, presently employed, was involved in this very bizarre incident." Subsequently Ziegler and C.R.P. spokesmen attacked the Post for "character assassination" and "shabby journalism." When the Post told of the wholesale destruction of C.R.P...
...such hesitancy after the McCord milestone. Now more and more print and TV reporters fastened on the story, and the intensely competitive character of U.S. journalism came to the surface. Exclusives received wide replay. On April 30 Nixon, after stating that he had fresh information about the scandal and announcing the departure of Dean, Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Richard Kleindienst, saw a few reporters in the White House press room. "We have had our differences in the past," he told them, "and I hope you give me hell every time you think I'm wrong. I hope I'm worthy...