Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once more a presidential counterattack on Watergate was under way. For no less than the 13th time since the scandal began to unfold eight months ago, Richard Nixon vowed to disclose all of the facts and put the sorry affair to rest. After a blitz of nine White House meetings and two public appearances, he had shed little new light on the controversy. But he had emerged, however belatedly, out of isolation and boldly entered the public arena, where the fate of his presidency will be determined...
...from criticizing the press for its coverage of Watergate, Ford said that newsmen were "the most significant contributors" to the exposure of the scandal. Ford said he could not imagine himself making a "hard-line speech" attacking journalists, much less trying to intimidate them, as some White House staffers had done, by advocating the punitive use of antitrust laws or the Internal Revenue Service...
Watergate was doubtless on the minds of voters who gave Democratic former Judge Brendan T. Byrne a landslide victory over Republican Representative Charles W. Sandman Jr. in the New Jersey gubernatorial election. But then there had been considerable scandal closer to home: in the past three years, 78 public officeholders have been indicted by federal grand juries in New Jersey. Sandman, moreover, stood at the far right of the party and admitted: "Watergate didn't help us, Vice President Agnew didn't help us. But I blame nobody but myself. It could be that [the party] didn...
...with a resounding 57 per cent of the vote in a field of four, and carried every borough. Finishing behind him, nearly tied in the balloting, were John Marchi and Albert Blumenthal. Marchi is a Republican, Blumenthal a Democrat running on the Liberal party line, and Mario Biaggi, a scandal-ridden Democrat running with the endorsement of the Conservative Party finished last. Except for three liberal Assembly Districts in Manhattan that went for Blumenthal, Beame carried every A.D. in New York...
...acting out her ancient ambitions, or that U.S. military strength and civil concord are not important to keeping the peace and pre serving the Constitution. But Drury finished his novel in February-and history, that heartless bitch, has stood him up again, with the Watergate investigations and the Agnew scandal. Characters more fascinating, events more crowded, a conspiracy against the Constitution far more plausible than any thing Drury has invented. It is not Drury's country that is a helpless giant, after all. It is his novel...