Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon Government is still under investigation. Until its problems, consisting of blatant financial finagling, the Spiro Agnew love affair, and the Watergate scandal, are resolved, the Nixon Government has not the legitimacy to participate in the selection of a Vice President, or in any other constitutional act devolving on the Executive. Period...
...finally seemed to be at hand. Nixon had vigorously protected nine recordings of his White House conversations through three painful months of litigation. His fight had precipitated a constitutional collision and had done much to undermine the claim that he was determined to "set forth the facts" about the scandal. But under overwhelming public pressure after the "Saturday Night Massacre" at his Justice Department, he had grudgingly agreed to yield to the demand of prosecutors and the courts. He would give up his nine tapes. Then, as he was about to do so last week, came the incredible admission: Nixon...
...presidential aides-so far John Dean, Jeb Magruder and Fred LaRue-to agree to testify for the prosecution in return for leniency in their own cases. Members of the task force were reportedly pressuring John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman, two of Nixon's highest-ranking aides until the scandal blew, to make some sort of deal...
After Agnew resigned and the Secret Service agents arrived to protect him as next in line to Nixon, Albert was trying to speed the day when they would no longer be needed. "Jerry," he told his friend Ford, "I would vote to confirm you today." Because of the scandal-ridden climate of the times, however, Albert felt (and Ford agreed) that he had to order the Judiciary Committee to be thorough in its investigation of Ford. But he rebuffed Democratic partisans who demanded that he delay House action until after the Senate acts. He explained: "I think I have...
...envy Gore Vidal to pick up Burr and discover that the gods of Julian the Apostate once again seem to have smiled broadly in his direction. Burr, a novel stretched tightly over the historical bones of Aaron Burr, could not have been published at a better time. There is scandal in the highest places. A constitutional storm is gathering in Washington, and interest in historical precedent is rising fast...