Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Elliot L. Richardson '41, Nixon's attorney general-designate (now confirmed), chose Archibald Cox '34, to head the Justice Department's investigation into the Watergate scandal...
Richard Nixon is informally on trial for his responsibility in the Watergate scandal. As witnesses parade before the Ervin Committee, spilling their tales of burglary, electronic eavesdropping, forgery and bribery, the public is judging how much Nixon is responsible for the crimes. If the judgement is harsh, he will most likely have to resign, pious pronouncements about the integrity of the presidency notwithstanding...
...MOST CONSTRUCTIVE result of the Watergate scandal thus far has been the increasing willingness of Congress to end the continuing criminal bombing the Nixon administration is conducting in Cambodia. Congress evidently emboldened by the disarray in the White House, is moving to cut off funds for the continuing aerial onslaught...
SENATOR JAMES BUCKLEY, 50, an engaging conservative from New York, has had his vice-presidential chances at least slightly set back. Though he supported the Percy resolution calling for an independent prosecutor, it was a tardy conversion. Previously, he had been defending Nixon against charges of scandal...
...banks and trusts in its area. Critics charged that the zone would become a pirates' sanctuary and attract shady operators from all over the world. Figueres' congressional opponents have been loudly castigating him for his close ties to Vesco, hoping to make the American financier's scandal-smirched background a political issue in the presidential election next February...