Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...close associate of Dean's has given TIME the following account of Dean's position in the White House infighting over the scandal. Some of the points have also been backed by his lawyers. Their story...
Another intriguing puzzle is whether John Mitchell could have failed to tell Nixon everything he knew about the Watergate scandal well before it grew so threatening. The two men have long been close friends as well as political associates. They conferred often-and as equals-on matters beyond Mitchell's duties as Attorney General. He served in that post from early 1969 until March 1972, when he moved over to head the Nixon re-election committee. In both jobs Mitchell was one of the few people in Washington who, with a flick of his phone-dialing finger, could hurdle...
...accused in the Watergate scandal, none was elected to political office. Almost all were appointed by Nixon. A glance at the list of alleged conspirators recalls Sam Rayburn's grumble when he considered John F. Kennedy's best and brightest: "I'd feel a lot better about them if one of them had run for sheriff once...
GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN, 62, put his foot in his mouth by saying that the Watergate conspirators were not "criminals at heart," but his geographical and political distance from the scandal leaves him otherwise untainted. Now disavowing any intention to run for a third term in California next year, he will remain in the public eye by speaking and fund raising for Republican candidates...
SENATOR ROBERT DOLE, 49, suffers because of the position he held when scandal erupted: chairman of the Republican National Committee. He also joined the chorus of protest against early press exposes of Watergate. But during the campaign he fought many a gallant losing battle with the Committee for the Re-Election of the President; in fact it was he who dubbed it CREEP. For his interference, he was shoved out of important campaign work and dumped from his National Committee office after the election...