Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...massive denunciation was directed at the President's abrupt dismissal of Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox and the resultant departures on principle of two of the scandal-ridden Administration's untainted remaining officials, Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. It was aimed too at Nixon's original refusal to turn over tapes and documents of his Watergate-related communications as ordered by a U.S. court of appeals...
...that he had been the victim of reporting that he assailed variously as "outrageous, vicious, distorted, frantic and hysterical" (see Hugh Sidey on the press conference, page 23). Perspiring and barely containing his anger at times, Nixon insisted that "the tougher it gets, the cooler I get." The recent scandal-inspired shocks that have so jolted the nation "will not affect me and my doing my job," he said. He had been through so much controversy ("it has been my lot") that "when I have to face an international crisis, I've got what it takes...
...Nixon then appointed Solicitor General Robert Bork acting Attorney General and directed him to fire Cox and abolish Cox's entire operation, including his staff of more than 60 attorneys, who have been investigating the pervasive scandal for five months. Bork obeyed, and within hours the nation witnessed the spectacle of FBI agents sealing off the offices and papers of the two top Justice Department men as well as those of Cox and his aides...
...enhanced his prestige. Last April Nixon named him acting director of the FBI, whose morale had been shattered by L. Patrick Gray's controversial tenure as acting director. Finally, Ruckelshaus was persuaded to become Richardson's top assistant last month. When asked about the Watergate scandal last spring, he told an interviewer: "There are a lot of people who understand private morality who have no understanding at all of public morality...
Nixon called television of the Watergate scandal the "most outrageous, vicious and distorted reporting" he had seen in 27 years of public life...