Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recover his balance, Richard Nixon last week stumbled into yet another Watergate morass. Now it was the mystery of the missing tapes. Conceded one of his closest legal advisers: "We've created a credibility cul-de-sac of such monstrous dimensions that even the most innocent transaction appears suspect...
...trying to cover up that earlier discussion; it contradicted Nixon's later claim that he had actually told Dean that it would be wrong to raise and pay such bribe money. Ironically, it was Nixon's behavior at that session, Dean related, that first led him to suspect their conversations were being taped...
...have watched the actions of university leaders, and we find them suspect. We have examined the basis of their major policies, and we find them unconscionable and insidious. We have examined the basis of their major policies, and we find them unconscionable and insidious. We have appraised the results of their words and deeds, and judged them to be inhuman and socially criminal. Our conscience leaves us no choice but to move will do within the next two weeks...
...existence of two of the nine Watergate tapes. Nixon's delayed announcement of the tapes' loss, his ever-changing account of when he first discovered their absence, and the constant revisions of his explanation for why two conversations were never recorded all make the claim of non-existence immediately suspect...
Alarming Tips. In pursuing this plethora of leads, Cox's staff had subpoenaed masses of bank records and deployed several dozen accountants from the IRS and the FBI to examine them. Members of the special prosecuting team suspect that the White House received tips from one of the federal agencies and became alarmed at the burgeoning scope of Cox's investigation. In addition, Administration officials may have disliked Cox's success in persuading former presidential aides-so far John Dean, Jeb Magruder and Fred LaRue-to agree to testify for the prosecution in return for leniency...