Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sentenced to jail last week. This time it was handsome, affable Jeb Stuart Magruder, who was given a ten-month minimum prison term for his entanglement in the Watergate affair (see story page 14). In his statement to Judge John Sirica after sentencing, Magruder confessed that the scandal was beyond his comprehension. Said Magruder: "You cannot measure the impact on this Administration or on this nation of Watergate...
...this time as a confessed felon. On June 4, the very day of the California state G.O.P. primary he might have won if the Watergate cover-up and his personal game plan had worked, Magruder will go to jail. The ten-month minimum sentence for his part in the scandal was stiffer than he expected after more than a year of cooperation with the prosecutors. His pretty wife Gail could not hold back the tears, but Magruder kept his composure as he read a prepared statement to an impassive Sirica...
Magruder begins with two chapters on his childhood and youth. He reveals that he grew up in a family overshadowed by scandal: his grandfather's career as a New York shipyard executive was ruined in the early 1920s when he was convicted and jailed for misapplication of $300,000 in bank funds...
...During the Teapot Dome scandal, what did 12-year-old Richard Nixon tell his mother, Hannah, he had decided to become...
...During the "slush fund" scandal of the 1952 election, Nixon dictated his resignation from Eisenhower's ticket. Two of his aides refused to send the telegram. Who were they...