Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decide how federal tax money will be spent, and 2) his desire to protect the entire Executive Branch against congressional scrutiny. More specifically, the latter argument centered on his attempt to keep all White House officials, past or present, from being publicly grilled about the Watergate political espionage scandal...
...point. Agnew resents that Nixon−in a news conference in January and to various aides−has mentioned Democrat John Connally as a potential presidential candidate in 1976. He also feels that Nixon has seriously mishandled the entire Watergate political-espionage scandal, possibly hurting the Republican Party's−as well as Agnew's−prospects in future elections. Agnew's aides, moreover, regard such Nixon intimates as H.R. Haldeman, White House chief of staff, and John Ehrlichman, domestic affairs assistant, as hostile barriers standing between the President and the Vice President...
...Muskie and Republican George Romney demonstrates the pitfalls in pushing too hard too soon. Agnew has said that he may not decide for another two years. But once John-come-lately Connally makes his expected shift to the Republican Party (apparently being delayed until the impact of the Watergate scandal is clearer), the pressure on Agnew to counter the Texan will grow...
Last week scandal nipped at the Governor's mansion. Newspapers reported that state Republicans had devised an illegal scheme for soliciting funds for Governor William Cahill's 1969 campaign. Fatcat contributors had been advised by leading Republicans to write off their donations on their tax returns as business expenses. This disclosure came on top of the conviction six months ago of the Governor's closest political confidant, Secretary of State Paul Sherwin, who had sought a kickback from a highway contractor. Cahill, who had seemed a shoo-in for reelection this year, is now in trouble...
When five men awkwardly surrendered in the Watergate apartment complex late last Spring, no one would have guessed that ten months later three present and former high aides to President Nixon would be implicated in the scandal...