Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...encouraging to see some public demand for the resolution of Watergate." But a number of readers still thought the press was exaggerating. Said one: "A few Republicans spy on a few Democrats and you write and preach and fume about it as if it were the worst scandal in history...
...hoping for is that on Jan. 19, 1977, Nixon gives them all a presidential pardon, so that all the wearers can take off their bracelets and throw them in one loud crash on the marble floors of America. Or they can send them back for recycling for the next scandal...
...whose last unmitigated joy was probably his Inauguration night months ago. Quite apart from the public testimony, the Senate's Watergate investigating committee was bearing down on Nixon in a complex battle to force him to release White House papers that might reveal the inner mechanics of the scandal...
...said in those conversations, that no one else, including John Dean, had told the President who had been involved in the Watergate planning or its cover-up until at least nine months after the arrests at Democratic national headquarters. Moreover, despite the mounting public furor over the scandal, only once did Nixon even ask his close confidant what he knew about Watergate-in a phone conversation three days after the bungled burglary on June 17, 1972. Mitchell testified that in this conversation he merely apologized to the President for "not knowing what the hell had happened, and I should have...
Before the Watergate scandal broke open, nearly every morning a precisely attired man walked into Coco's, a restaurant in the rich resort town of Newport Beach, Calif. Sitting down at the same corner table, he picked up the morning newspaper and began sipping his coffee. After a polite pause, he was approached by local businessmen and politicians, who, one by one, stated their business, received their reply, and moved on so the next man could have a chance. The ritual sometimes took as long as 2½ hours...