Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just as the President seemed about to be given some respite, a new scandal exploded. Vice President Agnew, who had hitherto escaped the taint of Watergate, was officially informed that he was under investigation for allegedly taking kickbacks from contractors. With a mixture of shock and disbelief, many Americans wondered: "Who else? What next?" It was an unprecedented crisis of American leadership, and no one could say whether or when trust in that leadership could ever be restored. It seemed incredible that only a little over a year had passed since Nixon and Agnew had stood at Miami, waving acknowledgment...
...tolerance for those who refused to strictly follow the "prim and proper" moral dictates of society. Those prominent Victorians whose lifestyle deviated from society's norms lived in the fear of finding Scotland Yard daily at their doors, ready to escort them to jail, ready to prosecute another sex scandal...
...with one of his sources who had charged him with plagiarism found a willing niche in the news pages of the New York Times--this was no mere litery matter; The Ladies Home Journal wanted a blockbuster excerpt; the 25 million readers of that most self respecting Sunday supplement scandal sheet, Parade, were asked why Mailer couldn't let the poor tortured girl rest in Peace? Dick Cavett and Mike Wallace grilled him on their video griddles; and not least of these attentions was the cover of Time Magazine, which had Mailer's fuzzy silver bush of hair being fondled...
...White House counterattack on the Watergate hearings was under way. At a state dinner honoring Japan's Premier Kakuei Tanaka, without directly mentioning the scandal, President Nixon declared: "Let others spend their time dealing with the murky, small, unimportant, vicious little things. We have spent our time and will spend our time in building a better world." Moments later, he deplored again "the petty little indecent things that seem to obsess...
...knew I was never going to make a May 15 deadline. I got page proofs on May 9, and I had to start tearing them up and rewriting." The last words were added on the evening of June 8-a scant two months before publication. Even if the scandal had come fully to light before the election-and Nixon had reacted to it by ordering a thorough housecleaning of his Administration-White maintains that the President's popular majority would not have fallen below 55%. Perhaps so, but the reader wonders whether White would have found in that result...