Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the scandal is stewing and growing and about to burst upon the public, Mo thinks of it as just another annoying personal problem. It takes her "beloved" husband away from her at odd hours. Watergate comes between them but he refuses to discuss it. Sometimes, though, she feels just a hint of foreboding...
Informal Manner. In 1972, Nixon summoned Bush from the U.N. to assume the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. As the Watergate scandal engulfed Nixon, Bush worked hard to reduce the damage to the party. His efforts won him the friendship of Gerald Ford, who in 1974 named Bush chief of the U.S. liaison office in Peking. In that lonely outpost, Bush and his wife Barbara-their five children remained in the U.S.-have with their informal manner made friends among the Chinese. They take bicycle tours around the city, play tennis at the international tennis club, and give hamburger...
Macho Politics. Mo also rates a chapter in The Women of Watergate, but then so does every other female however remotely connected to the scandal. This paste-up of old clippings serves principally as a reminder that Watergate created not just victimized wives but several heroines: Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham, Prosecutor Jill Wine Volner, Representatives Barbara Jordan and Elizabeth Holtzman. Aside from that, the book sags with speculation ("Yet there is a great deal that [Pat Ellsberg] does not say, but it is impossible to believe she has not felt") and shameless padding ("Jill Volner certainly did not grow...
...election scheduled or in sight, but Australia last week was ablaze with impassioned political rallies, complete with flesh pressing, placard waving and, of course, blunt "Strine" rhetoric. Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was under attack by Opposition Leader Malcolm Fraser, ostensibly for his government's involvement in a political scandal. "Either he knew everything that was going on, in which case he's a liar, or, alternatively, he's a fool," said Fraser. For his part, Whitlam castigated the opposition as "reactionary, conservative fascists [who] have stopped at nothing to destroy democracy...
Whitlam's government is unquestionably vulnerable. Mishandling of the domestic economy helped produce the highest unemployment (5.1%) in more than 30 years and a 16.9% inflation rate. Then came the scandal that gave Fraser his immediate issue: two Cabinet ministers were forced to resign from Whitlam's government on charges of misleading Parliament about covert negotiations for "overseas loans" through questionable channels to develop Australian energy resources. Between May 1974 and last month, Whitlam's approval rating in the polls dropped from...