Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legal proceedings, and a matter that was brought up indirectly at last week's hearings - whether the President could be required to testify before the Ervin committee. In this week's TIME Essay, Ferrer directs his attention to the remarkably large number of lawyers involved in the scandal...
...plays; Wycherley, four; Vanbrugh (also renowned as an architect), three and a half; Congreve (the most accomplished of the group), five; and Farquhar, seven and a half. This corpus laid the foundation and set the standard for the two supreme masterpeices of the genre: Sheridan's The School for Scandal, a century later; and Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, two centuries later...
...discussed the possibility of granting Executive clemency to a Watergate wiretapper with one of his former aides, Charles W. Colson (see box following page). This was at a time when Dean and Nixon were on friendly professional terms, counseling each other about their own culpability in the Watergate scandal. Dean recalls Nixon saying: "I shouldn't have seen Colson regarding Executive clemency for Howard Hunt." If true, this is an outright admission of the President's willingness to consider cover-up activity...
...newspapers stubbornly have refused to surrender their place in the sun. And with the advent of Watergate scandal, the dimensions of which were unearthed only after months of aggressive investigative news reporting, the importance of print journalism has been validated once again...
press influence "is as nothing compared with the weight of an American President, capable of commanding all three television networks simultaneously in his own defense." The Post also argued that in a similar scandal a British government would fall. "We are not Britain," the Post said. "We have a different set of checks and balances, which grant a President a fixed, firm term of office while holding him answerable, every day, to the judgment of the people...