Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trust that the American people will be able to evaluate and vote on the real issues whatever malicious scandal Dean Burch succeeds in dredging up. However shocked we may be about the private morals of public officials, the U.S. cannot be persuaded that the public moral problems of civil rights, nuclear war, poverty and prosperity are better understood by Goldwater than by President Johnson. JEAN BAKER Minneapolis...
...with great disappointment that I see America's "leading clergymen" have thought it ethical to use their power, pulpits and journals as instruments for influencing politics [Oct. 9]. This action appears even more ludicrous in view of the scandals that have been characteristic of the Johnson Administration. Why has there been no mass clerical denunciation of the Bobby Baker scandal? Certainly the respectable clergy cannot be blind to the lack of morality in high offices and widespread disregard of the law that are now so prevalent in our country...
First of the big stories to break in the hottest week of international news in years was the scandal in the White House. Then in quick succession came the overthrow in Moscow and the bomb in China. As one big story piled on top of another, about all that journalists reporting by the minute or the hour or the day could do, as one editor said (see PRESS), was "throw it at" the public. In a position to look at the news at greater length and depth, TIME correspondents around the world and writers and editors in New York...
Artist Bernard Safran's finely painted cover of Harold Wilson would have to give way, so it became a reduced black and white engraving, and joined photographs of the new Russian leaders and a picture of President Johnson taken as the news of the scandal was breaking-all four superimposed on the background of an atomic explosion...
Despite his aversion to the limelight, Jenkins was exposed to its glare on two notable occasions before last week. After the Billie Sol Estes scandal broke in 1962, it was learned that Jenkins, on behalf of then Vice President Johnson, had spoken to the Agriculture Department about Estes during the previous year. Jenkins requested information about any decisions involving Estes' cotton-acreage allotments, which were then being scrutinized for irregularities. But his involvement was at most peripheral, and no evidence was ever presented to prove that Jenkins or his boss ever tried to pressure the department in the Estes...