Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watergate story was now being dramatized under the klieg lights of the crowded Senate Caucus Room and thrust into the living rooms of America. Figuratively, the testimony represented at least half a dozen sticks of dynamite that could blow the scandal skyhigh. The fuses were lit, and the first reached flash point as Convicted Wiretapper James W. McCord Jr. directly accused Richard Nixon of participating in attempts to conceal the involvement of his closest political associates in the sordid and still-spreading affair...
Even as McCord was trying to forge new links between Nixon and the conspiracy to conceal the scandal, new revelations made it increasingly difficult to believe that the President could have remained totally unaware of the cover-up attempts. They were so pervasive, involving the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department, that if he did not know about them, he was guilty of neglect bordering on incompetence-an accusation few have ever leveled at the superbly organized Chief Executive...
...again on the Potomac overlook, and Caulfield warned: quot;The President's ability to govern is at stake. Another Teapot Dome scandal is possible, and the Government may fall. Everybody else is on track but you. You are not following the game plan. You seem to be pursuing your own course of action. Do not talk if called before the grand jury; keep silent and do the same if called before a congressional committee.quot; But McCord reiterated that he would not make any deal...
...Watergate scandal has raised doubts about whether the agency is following the rules...
...Nixon inlaw, composed a hearts-and-flowers allegory about "the Coach" whose team has committed errors "out of an excessive loyalty to him and the Institution." As it turns out, the man described was onetime Army Football Coach Earl H. ("Red") Blaik, and his dilemma was the 1951 cheating scandal at West Point that decimated his team. Eisenhower noted that Blaik rebuilt his team and retired with honor. The moral: "Is there any reason to believe that our nation's Coach, Richard Nixon, will do less...