Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blind Ambition is Dean's long-awaited accounting of the part he played in America's worst and most public political scandal. Sparsely told and crammed with intriguing dialogue, it presents a surprisingly unflattering self-portrait. Dean berates himself as "a squealer" and describes himself as too "naive and guppy-like" to object to the criminal activities in Richard Nixon's White House-at least until it was too late...
...contain Watergate, his eventual rebellion, revealing the collective White House guilt, and his imprisonment. Cutting through what is likely to be a reader's confused memories, he reveals precisely what he was thinking-and what he assumed Nixon and others meant-as they plotted to contain the scandal. The book also probes the often heartless world of high-powered lawyers and prosecutors bargaining over the fates of clients and defendants. (When Prosecution Witness Herbert Kalmbach wept on the stand in the cover-up trial, Special Prosecutor James Neal was sympathetic but also ecstatic: "He's had it tough...
...Ford's problems, Republicans in Washington were particularly depressed over the whiff of possible scandal in his handling of campaign finances as a Congressman. Earlier this year, acting on the orders of Special Prosecutor Ruff, teams of FBI agents had combed through Ford's campaign financial records in Grand Rapids from 1964 through the present time, and reportedly found nothing. But last week, an informer in Washington slipped a confidential and highly sensitive document to two pairs of investigative reporters: the Wall...
...after contest, it is plain that party affiliation and positions on all but a few emotional issues (abortion, busing, gun control) are of less concern to most voters than their general perception of the candidates' honesty and integrity. In races in which one candidate has been brushed by scandal-no matter how lightly-polls indicate an impending defeat, generally...
...crisscrosses the state in a van and tells voters that he wants to be a "pain in the neck" in Washington. He lost a narrow Senate race in 1970, but he is spending heavily against his opponent, ex-Governor Warren E. Hearnes, who is severely tarnished by allegations of scandal in his past administration...