Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continuing ironies of Watergate is that Richard Nixon has become increasingly entangled in the scandal largely through a needless and voluntary creation of his own: his secret system for recording nearly all of his official conversations. If his clandestine tape recorders had not been silently capturing his words and those of his most intimate aides, he probably would not now be in so imminent a danger of impeachment. If he is finally forced out of office, it may well be largely due to those telltale tapes. Nearly forgotten in the endless struggles over access to those recordings is the question...
Some former Nixon associates offer a plausible theory to explain why the tapes were kept available in the White House as the Watergate scandal unfolded and before the public was aware of the recording setup. If any member of the cover-up conspiracy were to make any false accusations about a talk with the President, Nixon could contend he had taped that conversation because he had felt it was especially important. Then he could produce the tape and destroy the credibility of the witness...
...TIME, April 15). There was nothing illegal about it, and Wilson himself was not involved. But many Britons found it unseemly TOPIX that the charge of land speculation should be raised against intimate colleagues of a man who a few weeks ago was denouncing it as "the biggest single scandal, the ugliest of the faces of present-day capitalism...
...Maryland dropout, Woodward was a smooth Yalie who drove a 1970 Karmann-Ghia and smelled of ivied clubs. To Woodward, also 30, the shaggy Bernstein symbolized one of those unseemly counterculture journalists. But when they accepted the Pulitzer Prize in May 1973 for their pioneering probe of the Watergate scandal, it was obvious that the odd couple made an ideal journalistic team...
...endorsement of "racial justice." But he was not always so heartily endorsed at home; testifying in favor of open housing in 1966, he was booed and jeered. His own mounting concern about the war in Viet Nam finally grew into an angry 1971 declaration that the conflict was "a scandal the Christian conscience can no longer endure...