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...Attorney General. Richardson says that he refuses to "dignify" such assertions by replying to them. A source close to Richardson maintains that the Attorney General could not profit from the leaks involving Agnew because "they are seen as a failure within the department to observe ethical standards, as another stain on the department...
...concerned" about the reports that Gray had burned Watergate documents that had been given to him by Ehrlichman and John W. Dean III. Gray decided the next day that he should resign. "I said early in the game," Gray told the committee, "that Watergate would be a spreading stain that would tarnish everyone with whom it came in contact-and I'm no exception...
Last week the stain grew larger. NASA reported that 15 astronauts, all unnamed, were "admonished" for their parts in another commercial scheme. According to NASA, the 15 had been paid $37,500 for signing more than 30,000 stamps and postcards. If these were added to such other astronaut souvenirs as watches, medals and figurines that reached the market, the total price would be just over...
...like American jurists: they are sometimes unqualified; they often get their jobs through political connections; and they usually hang on to them for a long, long time. Thus, as frequently happens in U.S. courtrooms, some distressingly poor judgments were rendered last week in Munich, leaving an indelible stain on the otherwise lustrous XX Olympiad...
...acceptance speech, the President promised that he would "never stain the honor of the United States" in settling the Viet Nam War. "Honor," of course, is one of those words that strike a patriotic gong in the citizen's mind, but the concept is sometimes more complex than Nixon suggested. In the case of Viet Nam, most critics of the U.S. war policy insist that it is precisely the continuation of American involvement-especially the bombing-that threatens the national honor. But beyond that, one occasion's honor tends often to dissolve in next year's realism...