Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Summer School begins its 1974 session, Watergate continues to fill the media. Each day brings new word of crime and scandal: buggings, attempted bribery of judges, suppression of evidence, executive defiance of the Constitution, presidential lies. Watergate has aroused a necessary critical spirit in this country. The domestic policies of the Nixon administration come under ever-increasing scrutiny, and in times of run-away inflation and regressive welfare policies that is as it should be. But this revitalized ability to see through the lies and deceptions does not seem to have extended to the arena of foreign policy. This...
...Richard Nixon's most persistent Watergate defense themes is that he will never do anything to weaken the institution of the presidency. A study of children's attitudes toward the office by Political Scientist F. Christopher Arterton of Wellesley College indicates, however, that the Watergate scandal already has profoundly altered at least one small group of the younger generation's perceptions of the presidency...
...Scandal has spread to that bastion of model morality, the Boy Scouts of America. Last week the organization acknowledged that leaders in at least ten local councils had ignored the Scout oath to be "mentally awake and morally straight," and padded their membership rolls with tentfuls of nonexistent boys...
...Administration bedeviled by scandal, Henry Kissinger stood out as a bright and admired example of integrity. His supporters were already calling him the most successful Secretary of State in this century. Coupled with his foreign policy accomplishments, his urbane wit and lucid intelligence had made him, according to a recent poll, the most popular man in the U.S. Government. Yet there was a small cloud: persistent rumors dating even before his selection as Secretary of State that he might be involved in the rather unpleasant business of wiretapping some of his colleagues...
...heat of a grave political crisis, a modest man became momentarily a heroic one. Now, eight months later, Cox has returned to his book-lined office in the International Legal Studies Building at the Law School, saying little about the scandal even in his now-frequent speeches and waiting modestly for the other shoe, the one his defiance set in motion, to drop on Richard Nixon...