Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Real Control. The responsibility for the growing scandal lies largely in Washington. The Federal Government has never exercised any real control over the Medicaid program. In an effort to promote local independence and avoid duplication of effort, the Government has allowed the states to disburse and control Medicaid expenditures within the structure of their own welfare programs. But most states are ill-equipped to administer such a massive undertaking, making it easier for cheaters to move...
...outgrowth of the Watergate scandal has been an intensified Government probe into contributions by American-based multinational corporations -especially oil companies-to foreign politicians. Two years ago, the Watergate special prosecutor's office, while investigating illegal contributions to Nixon's 1972 campaign, discovered clues indicating that some U.S. firms had also been donating to political parties in other countries. The Securities and Exchange Commission later began looking into the matter. Reason: giving corporate cash to a foreign political party does not in itself violate U.S. law, but disguising the contributions on a company's books might contravene...
...tact and loyalty he demonstrated as national chairman in the worst days of Watergate. A third candidate is Herman, who won his organizational spurs by deftly moving the 1972 G.O.P. National Convention to Miami Beach from San Diego, where it had fallen under the cloud of the ITT contribution scandal...
...Viet Nam and the scandal of Watergate dominated a whole decade of our national life and led to a severe alienation of many Americans, especially the young, from their Government. Two Presidents were destroyed by those two tragedies. Now we have in the White House our first appointed President, a nice man with a weak base in Congress and spotty ratings in the public opinion polls. So we came up to the very harsh events of this spring of 1975 with our whole foreign policy process, which has come to rest heavily on popular trust in the Executive, already...
...around the President-Mitchell, Haldeman and Ehrlichman-on precisely what brought Nixon down, and on how the Government and press have been affected. Most notably, these books provide small, sharp, almost novelistic insights into the personal struggles-some devilish, some inspiring-of individuals caught up in the scandal...