Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President should resign. That is the only honorable course open to him. In no self-respecting European democracy, and perhaps only in that of our allies in South Viet Nam, could a regime conceivably ride out a scandal of the magnitude of Watergate. Mr. Nixon, who has delighted in setting precedents, should set one more and thereby help patch a yawning loophole in the Constitution...
...strangest accusations in the Watergate scandal is the charge that the press has been guilty of "McCarthyism." Joe's unhappy ghost was raised most insistently by Wisconsin's William Proxmire, who inherited McCarthy's Senate seat and who has privately stated that he thinks President Nixon is "up to his ears" in the Watergate mess. Said Proxmire: the secondhand press accounts of what White House Counsel John W. Dean III told federal investigators represent a "McCarthyistic destruction of the President." Vice President Spiro Agnew followed with an attack on the publication of anonymous "hearsay" as "a very...
...refused to comment on the substance of the Watergate scandal except to say, "It seems very, very...
...scandal of major proportions marred the otherwise smooth awards ceremony. An enterprising newspaper reporter noted that Frank Kulash, chief election commissioner and curator of the Radcliffe pinball Hall of Fame, was guilty of conflict-of-interest in certifying himself as the fifth place finisher in the election...
...trial. The jury never got to rule whether the unauthorized release of embarrassing political documents was a crime. But the disclosures of White House-directed theft, disappearing FBI records, and a network of clandestine intelligence probes directed at reporters and Federal officials further clouded the already murky waters of scandal in which the Nixon administration increasingly finds itself floundering...