Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...From the scandal's beginning, Democratic party leaders have been bashful about making political hay out of this scandal by publicly needling Reagan to resign. Michael Kinsley '72, in The New Republic, manages to summon up the courage to tell fellow liberals to get a guilt-free chuckle out of the whole sordid affair...
...Europe, after a scandal of the proportions of Contragate, Presidential advisers would form a queue out the door and Reagan himself would be strongly considering following suit. Yet this crisis, a quintessential political scandal complete with upstart underlings and clued-out Cabinet members has somehow been successfully extricated from the realm of politics. This is wrong...
...debating the similarities and differences between this latest fiasco and Watergate. Some argue breaking the law in the already dirty world of partisan politics pales in comparison with an attempt to conduct foreign policy illegally. Others argue that the more directly the President is involved, the more serious the scandal, and in that way Watergate is by far worse...
...partisan commentators look to this scandal as vindication of Abraham Lincoln's words, "you can't fool all the people all the time." And those are fine words to vindicate. But the election of another ardent conservative, Ronald Reagan, after the humiliation that was the Nixon Presidency, would seem to prove that while you can't fool everyone all the time, you certainly can do so when their collective memory fades...
Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe '62, who was debating Hatch, also commented on the scandal. "It is an irony," Tribe said, that the two "put their own view of the national interests above the laws of Congress...