Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vacationing during the waning days of August-a little golf, a little swimming-but there was no sign of respite for the embattled President. First, Federal Judge John J. Sirica ordered that Nixon must surrender to him the secret White House tapes of private meetings about the Watergate scandal. The historic decision-the first in which a judge has ever ordered a President to give up documentary evidence that he was unwilling to produce-brought presidential lawyers rushing to the Western White House in San Clemente to determine how to fight the case this week on appeal before...
...regard as "a dangerous attempt to undermine the Constitution and our democratic process," Americans by and large do not want him to leave the presidency. They have three main reasons for that stand: 1) they tend to blame the men around Nixon more than the President for creating the scandal; 2) they would be "dissatisfied" with Vice President Spiro Agnew as a replacement; and 3) they fear the probable impact, both at home and abroad, of the President's impeachment or his resignation...
Despite such signs of cynicism about the nature of U.S. politics, the public is not at all complacent about the overall Watergate scandal. Oddly, a majority (58%) say that they are "upset" about the affair, while an overwhelming 82% say that they are "disgusted...
...shortly before Nixon's triumphant reelection. Then, 53% of the people had a positive feeling about the way things were progressing; now 71% feel that things are going badly. Watergate is a substantial factor in the shift, since 36% of the public now express concern about the scandal. Yet the economy worries more people (66%, a climb of 25% since 1972), while the war in Southeast Asia predictably has dropped sharply as a topic of public concern. (Crime and drugs have also dropped considerably.) Paradoxically, most Americans - a surprising 89% - feel that things are going well in their...
...same time, the scandal has been in a sense educational, creating new interest in government and politics - and not turning people cynically away from the system. An impressive 40% of U.S. voters declare that because of Watergate, they will be more interested, rather than less, in going to the polls...