Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mario Biaggi, a Bronx Democrat who has served for 20 years in Congress, was convicted of 15 felony counts for his part in the Wedtech scandal. The federal jury found Biaggi guilty of extorting $1.8 million in Wedtech stock and $50,000 in cash in return for his influence in getting federal military contracts for the Bronx-based manufacturing company. The day after the conviction Biaggi tearfully resigned his seat in Congress...
Gail Sheehy seems to think so, and her recently-released Character: America's Search for Leadership proceeds from this assumption. Responding to many Americans, even certain members of the media, who believed that the press had gone too far in reporting the Gary Hart scandal of last year and had shown unmatched arrogance and overzealous tenacity in the process, Sheehy argues that understanding a candidate's character strengths and weaknesses is indispensible for understanding the candidate himself...
...most recent presidents have been victimized not by bad policies, but by dangerous "character flaws." Richard Nixon's downfall was not Watergate, the argument goes, but his own feeling of paranoia that led him to order the break-ins. Likewise, Reagan's downfall was not the Iran-contra scandal in itself, but rather his inattention to detail and his willingness to delegate responsibility to zealots like Oliver North...
Perpich and Johnson won the election, but Cohen was so tainted by scandal that he lost his job. Outraged, he sued the newspapers for breach of contract and misrepresentation. Last week a Minneapolis jury ruled in his favor, awarding him a total of $700,000 in damages...
...wrong words bring out the Wright stuff. Scandal-tarred House Speaker Jim Wright desperately wanted to make a speech in prime time. Democratic Party strategists, preferring that the oleaginous convention chairman be an invisible man, reluctantly agreed to relative darkness: ten minutes of non- prime-time oratory...