Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ervin Committee hearings will resume today as former Attorney General John N. Mitchell testifies about his role in the ever-widening Watergate scandal. Meanwhile, the controversy surrounding President Nixon's silence in the affair broadened yesterday as bipartisan criticism of Nixon's refusal to appear before the Committee erupted...
...expanded bipartisan effort to convince the President to publicly discuss any part he may have played in the Watergate scandal has taken several forms. Many Republicans and Democrats have united in recommending that the president disclose his knowledge of the affair at a press conference, before the Ervin Committee and by release of all White House files concerning the scandal...
...expected to answer charges made in earlier testimony that he participated in the planning and cover-up of the June 17, 1972 Watergate break-in. Mitchell has repeatedly denied any role in the affair. Mitchell's attorneys have said that their client will not implicate the president in the scandal...
Dean III's meetings with President Nixon. Indeed, Baker's style as committee vice chairman has so impressed his colleagues that he has become one of the Republicans' new luminaries looking to 1976-and one of the few to benefit from the Watergate scandal...
Poulson's arrest means that British papers will no longer refer to him in connection with the growing scandal -now being called the "British Watergate"-and it makes especially poignant one sentence in the self-censored editorial: "We should certainly try to avoid the situation in the United States in which there are ordinary prosecutions and a major public inquiry taking place simultaneously." The upshot is that discussion of the larger scandal has been quashed for now. If the same system existed in the U.S., the real story of Watergate might have remained buried while the pawns were being...