Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President expressed a mixture of gratitude, anger, determination. He praised two of his missing, newly removed aides, White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman and Domestic Affairs Adviser John Ehrlichman, as "dedicated people." Looking at former Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, who also lost his job in the Watergate scandal shuffle, Nixon said, "We are going to miss you." Kleindienst replied, "It has been a privilege to serve with Richard Nixon"?and he left the room to more applause. Then the President's mood darkened and the old Nixon emerged. He assailed the "partisan" attacks from both the press...
...really quite simple to predict Richard Nixon's actions. When deprived of the California governorship in 1962, Nixon stomped off the political stage like an undisciplined child, fuming "You won't have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore." Ten years later, in the heat of the Watergate scandal exposed by the press, anyone might have predicted what turned out to be Nixon's snide retort: "We have had our differences in the past and I hope you give me hell everytime you think I'm wrong." Give him a teething ring or a dog biscuit to munch on (like...
...President Nixon is blind and deaf to the evil which permeates his administration, the American people are not. The day-by-day developments of the scandal, while not all screaming banner-headline material, suggest an underlying insidiousness that the President will be unable to ignore when public hearings begin next Tuesday...
Nixon is not foolish enough to close his eyes or ears to the burgeoning scandal, but he has tried his damndest to close the eyes and ears of the American people. Last Friday, he issued a "speak-no-evil" directive, reinvoking the policy of executive privilege which he had clamped on his aides during the first nine months of the Watergate investigation...
Although the President has accepted responsibility for the Watergate affair, a scandal that has eaten away at the very roots of his administration, he asks the American people to ignore the espionage so he can quietly return to his Oval Office in pursuit of the "greater goals" to which he has dedicated his term in office. But Nixon's questionable efforts to secure peace at home and abroad must pale in the light of his efforts to secure re-election. To delegate responsibility, as Nixon says he did during the campaign, without supplying guidance is negligent; to "seek peace" while...