Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES should immediately form a special committee to investigate the operations of the Executive branch. The committee should work closely with the Senate's Ervin subcommittee, and should concentrate chiefly on the House's responsibility arising from the Watergate scandal. It should also treat the broader question of whether the Executive's attempts to continue the Cambodian bombing and impound appropriated funds are constitutional...
...ablest of Nixon's appointees (in no way tainted by Watergate) sometimes broods: "It is much too easy to destroy a President." The fact is, it is not easy at all. The American governmental system gives tremendous security to a President. He can sustain severe political defeats, even scandals, and still function reasonably effectively as President. What he cannot do after defeat and scandal is pose as the supreme embodiment of American history and purpose or some democratic monarch by divine right. But he was never meant to be that-even without defeat and scandal. It may be that...
WITH his top staff practically wiped out by scandal, President Nixon last week faced the grim problem of choosing replacements. To fill key posts, he needed aides in whom he had personal trust and whose integrity seemed invulnerable to challenge. To be his White House chief of staff, his Attorney General and his counsel, he selected three men who had already served him faithfully while avoiding the kind of animosity aroused by other Nixon aides. The trio...
Just about everyone in Washington would like to stay as far away from the creeping tide of the Watergate scandal as possible. Everyone, that is, except the city's 10,000 lawyers. Attorneys in the capital-and a few from outside the city-are being drawn to the case like gulls to a fish fry. By one rough count, 40 private attorneys have so far been hired to work on civil and criminal matters related to Watergate. They could not ignore such mixed lures as a desire to be where the action is, a professional responsibility to provide representation...
...corporation grow so huge and powerful that it becomes immune to the effects of even the most sensational scandal? If ever a company presented a test case of the answer, it is International Telephone & Telegraph Co. ITT is the biggest of all multinational conglomerates (annual revenues: $8.6 billion), and for slightly more than a year now it has been accused of making political payoffs in the U.S. and conspiring to overthrow the government of Chile. This week ITT executives will face stockholders at the annual meeting with a mixed report: profits are up, but the company's stock...