Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soon to judge how Nixon's tax scandal might affect his effort to stay through his term of office. Certainly Wilbur Mills was very wide of the mark last month in predicting that Nixon would be forced to resign when his tax liabilities were revealed. Opinion on the President, as judged by polls, has been pretty firmly set for some time, at least at the extremes. Thus the tax charges generated considerable sympathy among his hard-core supporters, while those convinced that the President must go took the tax denouement as additional confirmation of their opinion. The split in reaction...
Both newspapers carefully noted that Wilson himself was not implicated and that there was nothing illegal about land speculation. But the embarrassment to Wilson was acute. The prospect that there might be further hints of scandal has shaken Labor hopes that Wilson might call an early election while his new government still enjoyed a measure of initial public good will...
There has been little doubt for months that the consuming issue of the 1974 mid-term vote will be Watergate. But with Election Day just seven months away, candidates and leaders of both parties are increasingly realizing that much of the campaign may unfold against more than just a scandal: it could well coincide with the first presidential impeachment proceeding in more than a century...
...quite. For one thing, Chaban advocates widespread reform ("the new society," he calls it), ranging from governmental decentralization to increased social security benefits - policies that are anathema to some Gaullist fundamentalists who want to hold down government spending. Moreover, his reputation is still clouded by a whiff of scandal: in July 1972, Pompidou ousted him as Premier after it became known that he had taken advantage of legal loopholes and paid no income taxes on his $30,000 salary in the years from...
...criticisms, voiced most loudly in recent weeks by Europeans (see box page 26), represent a startling reversal for Kissinger. In an Administration marked by scandal, he has not only survived but prospered?a scholar, statesman and superstar who has done the seemingly miraculous for so long that it has become almost routine. Despite the new chorus of complaints and questioning, Kissinger today probably has more impact than any other person in the world. Quite possibly, he has now become the world's indispensable...