Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WITH each passing hour the Government crisis in Washington grew more tense. A federal grand jury was meeting secretly to consider indictments of high Nixon officials in the Watergate wiretapping and its coverup. The President was spending long days considering what to do about the scandal. The dismissal or suspension of some of his closest aides was not only anticipated, but overdue. Around the capital, the suspense was complicated by a pervasive air of unreality, a sense of something gone disastrously wrong very near the center of the nation's power. Yet there was no word from Nixon...
...This seems to be the most serious scandal in our government," Weaver said. "I am disappointed to see this turn out to be true." Weaver said he is "prepared to believe that Nixon is not guilty," but added, "we may never know if, or how much, he was involved...
Paul H. Weaver, assistant professor of Government and a supporter of Nixon last November, yesterday called Watergate a "damned outrage" and said that the scandal "has the potential of leading to the end of Nixon's presidency...
Monday night, a shaken man went before the American people on nationwide television to explain the Watergate scandal. But more important, Nixon tried desperately to recover from a crisis that has caused irreparable damage to Nixon's personal plans for his second Presidency, which seemed so bright after his landslide victory last November...
...Watergate scandal has washed away the euphoria his inauguaration brought just two months ago. Monday night, the President looked haggard, and his face betrayed the agony of the past two weeks...