Word: secretse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once he gained the presidency, Nixon became unusually obsessed with protecting Administration secrets. The Administration's appalling willingness to spy, snoop and wiretap can be traced as far back as 1969. TIME has learned that the spying operation started early in 1969, when Nixon became furious over leaks to the
The "best" of a long line of "the best and the brightest"? Henry Kissinger took a bow before his major policy speech on Europe at the annual lunch of the Associated Press in Manhattan. He then explained why the flattering introduction by A.P. Chairman Paul Miller gave him pause. It...
"They had a view of the political system, of political races and of loyalty to the President which was terribly unsophisticated," Maass observed. "It's legitimate to want to know what the Democrats were doing, but it was silly to think there were any secrets."
The ease with which scientists uncovered nature's secrets-the laws of the planetary motion and gravity, the basic principles of magnetism, the intricacies of the blood system-encouraged such a heady feeling. The universe, the scientists claimed, was simply smoothly functioning clockwork; each action within it had a...
- The leaking and publication of classified information has always been a murky area in criminal law, except when genuine military secrets are involved. Until the Pentagon papers case, the Government never bothered to prosecute. That would change radically if President Nixon's proposed Criminal Code Reform Act of 1973...