Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Regarding John Wilson's referring to Senator Inouye as "that little Jap": as a lifelong Republican I have lived through and survived the Watergate scandal, the Cambodian lies, the soaring cost of living, and the paying of improvements for the Western White House through my taxes. But if Mr. Wilson and his racist attitude are typical of the kind of men and thinking surrounding Mr. Nixon and his aides, then I here and now repudiate the Republican Par ty and encourage other Asian Americans to do the same...
...greater importance." He made no real effort to answer the damaging charges and questions that have emerged from three months of testimony before the Ervin committee; he merely reiterated that the charges against him were false. Perhaps understandably, he had nothing at all to say about the latest scandal to involve his Administration: the grand jury investigation in Baltimore of kickback and extortion charges that gravely threatens Vice President Spiro Agnew (see following story...
...accepted overall responsibility but also managed to imply that he was not to blame for being misinformed-and misinformed largely by one man, John Dean. He reaffirmed his desire to get at the truth and yet complained that the investigators of the scandal were mired in the past and determined to implicate the President even if it meant damaging the country. "If you want the mandate you gave this Administration to be carried out," the President declared, "then I ask for your help to ensure that those who would exploit Watergate in order to keep us from doing what...
Russian Novel. At first glance, it looked to some as if the new scandal might help Nixon by diverting public attention from Watergate, but that was a short-sighted view. "Watergate is like a Russian novel," commented a top Administration official. "There were too many names. Nobody took any money and people didn't really understand it. Agnew's difficulties are different. Those are charges that people understand." Chances are that people in fact understand Watergate much better than the White House hopes; at any rate, it was now clear to all that wrong had been done in high office...
Since both Wolff and Matz, Agnew's primary accusers, are themselves believed to be deeply involved in the payoff scandal, they are presumably being forced by the Government into the position of being "willing to give up Agnew to save themselves," as one observer bluntly put it. Wolff was said to be especially anxious to make a deal and avoid being forced to testify under limited, or so-called "use" immunity...