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...career in the Hollywood Production Code Office, passing judgment on the acceptability of motion pictures, and who wrote about it a few years ago in an entertaining book called See No Evil. Summing up at the end of his book, Vizzard warns that "a tyranny is set up of sordid competition for lowest common denominators, in which writer is set against writer, and creative mind against creative mind in a contest first for the bold, then the shocking, then the sickly fringe, and then, lastly the corrupt. It is degrading to society to be party to a race into...
...insisting that not all the panoply of the presidency entitled Nixon to withhold material evidence from the Watergate prosecutors, brought the White House tapes and documents out of hiding. For these deeds, and as a symbol of the American judiciary's insistence on the priority of law throughout the sordid Watergate saga of 1973, TIME'S Man of the Year is Federal Judge John Joseph Sirica...
...scandal ballooned well beyond a political burglary and its coverup, wide-ranging allegations against Nixon himself became part of the sordid affair. They included contentions that Nixon had: 1) intervened in an antitrust action against ITT in return for political contributions; 2) raised milk support prices and reduced dairy imports for similar considerations...
Sirica then deferred sentencing McCord. But in the most controversial act in his entire handling of the Watergate affair, he also kept the pressure on the other convicted conspirators to talk too by giving them harsh provisional sentences ranging up to 40 years. He called their crimes "sordid, despicable and thoroughly reprehensible." He promised to review the sentences later and said that the final sentencing "would depend on your full cooperation with the grand jury and the Senate Select Committee. " Sirica's expressed purpose: "Some good can and should come from a revelation of sinister conduct whenever and wherever such...
...were not content to act as a mere umpire and keeper of the peace in the courtroom, but your conduct more than any other factor led to what appears to be a searching and conscientious inquiry to determine the truth about and ultimate responsibility for this sordid mess. This once again illustrates, for all to see, the fact that an independent judiciary is essential to the well-being of this nation, and it demonstrates also what one man can do if he has good motives and a strong determination...