Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faculty members said yesterday that the Watergate scandal differs from corruption in past administrations because the Nixon appointees who have been linked to last June's bugging of the Democratic National Headquarters were political amateurs who did not act to "line their own pockets...
Beer said that the scandal has placed the country "in a period of divided government which we haven't had for a long time." "Instead of having direction, we will have a whole series of unidentifiable compromises," he said...
Laurence H. Tribe '62, professor of Law, yesterday called Richardson "a distinguished lawyer." However, he added that no one appointed by the President should be connected with the investigation of the Watergate bugging scandal...
...resignation of attorney general Richard G. Kleindienst '47 demonstrates an important distinction that must be emphasized in the Watergate case or any other public scandal. Behavior need not be criminal to be disreputable, and men may be unfit for public trust before being convicted on crime like perjury or obstruction of justice. If President Nixon recognized the necessity of accepting Kleindienst's resignation--submitted because of the attorney general's "close association" with those involved in the scandal, he must also recognize the unsavory light this logic casts on his entire Administration...
...President, Nixon is ultimately responsible for both his Administration and his party. The Watergate affair has discounted any possibility that he could effectively lead either. The unusual circumstances brought on by the Watergate scandal calls for unusual measures to meet the crisis. In keeping with his own sense of decency, the President must resign his office, and Vice-President Agnew must resign as well...