Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...1970s, he was covering the White House at the height of the Watergate scandal, reporting on the quadrennial presidential elections and anchoring the morning "Today Show" from 1976-81. In 1983, he became anchor of the "Nightly News" show...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Chastened by the convictions this week of Jim and Susan McDougal, the White House has decided to give a little ground in another scandal percolating in Washington. Facing a contempt-of-Congress vote against three current and former White House aides, the Administration provided the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee with more than 1,000 pages of documents related to the firing of seven travel-office employees early in 1993. The Administration also provided a list of 2,000 pages it is still withholding, citing executive privilege, a clause most often invoked on matters of national security...
...poet laureate of England (Tennyson, say, in the days when the post and poetry mattered) had been found guilty of plagiarism, it would be an interesting cultural scandal. To wear the valor decorations, as Boorda did, amounted to a kind of moral plagiarism--a theft of other men's honor, and therefore a debasing of the coin rewarding their courage...
...Other Hero. Would Dole really tap someone who backed Phil Gramm in the early primaries, was tangentially involved in the Keating Five savings-and-loan scandal and led the fight to open diplomatic relations with Vietnam? Not most people with that kind of resume. But Arizona Senator John McCain, 59, spent 5 1/2 years in a North Vietnamese pow camp and would give the G.O.P. a kind of Double-Hero ticket, compounding strength with strength much as Bill Clinton did with Al Gore. Dole insiders view McCain as potentially the last man standing, the one to whom Dole would turn...
...SCANDAL SHEET...