Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both Connally and Goldwater agreed that Watergate's repercussions were wider than the G.O.P. Wrote the Arizona Senator: "The reverberations of scandal and corruption will shoot through both major parties and create real trouble for incumbents." A Gallup poll found that while voter identification with the Republican Party has dropped four points since the 1972 election, to 24%, those who said they were Democrats has stayed at 43%. The only increase has been among those who consider themselves members of neither party...
...course, manners maketh men, not policies, and it will take more than affability and good intentions to repair the moral ravages of Watergate. The President still maintains a curious attitude of detachment from the White House and the office of the Presidency. He continues to view the Watergate scandal from the wings, implying that it was something done by people he hardly knew and for whom he was not responsible. His new State of the Union message last week left the clear impression that he feels Congress is almost entirely responsible for not producing an adequate legislative program...
These sideshows occurred as far away as Indochina and were distinguished by no memorable faces or names. So they were merely grim diversions this summer, though in calmer, more thoughtful times, these atrocities might have evoked determined calls for impeachment. Already satiated with scandal, Americans meekly accepted the rest of the bad news...
Possibilities. Since the Democrats control both houses of Congress, Nixon's selection would have to be agreeable to them. And since his Administration has been shaken by scandal, he would have to name a man of respectable background. Beyond that, it is wholly a matter of speculation whether Nixon would prefer a strong nominee who would bolster his Administration but also make him more vulnerable to impeachment, or a stand-in who would be acceptable but lackluster. Despite the official denials that there is any list of candidates, the guessing in Washington does name names. The most commonly cited...
...Washington. There are so many separate investigations of Watergate and related affairs that they are bound to conflict. Cox had reportedly asked the grand jury to put off the indictments for a week so that Ehrlichman could be brought to Washington to testify further on Watergate, the ITT scandal, and probably on the Ellsberg break-in and other plumbers' activities. Now that he has been indicted, Ehrlichman has grounds for keeping silent, at least in regard to the Ellsberg burglary case. His attorneys, in fact, asked the federal district court in Washington to quash the subpoena; testifying...