Word: teapot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...During the Teapot Dome scandal, what did 12-year-old Richard Nixon tell his mother, Hannah, he had decided to become...
...this that has concerned me is dragging the damn thing out. And having it to be the only issue in town. Now the thing to do now, have done. Indict Mitchell and the rest and there'll be a horrible two weeks?a horrible, terrible scandal, worse than Teapot Dome and so forth. And it doesn't have anything to do with Teapot...
...ever larger concern ("Somewhere in the background can be heard the ring of the cash register, or else the clang of an alarm bell over the cash register's silence"). He insists that newsmen keep their heads even when dealing with mind-boggling events ("Journalism, like a teapot handle, is presumed to be able to remain cool while transmitting...
...Christian Science Monitor Correspondent Richard L. Strout, 75, picked up his first congressional-press-gallery membership card in 1923. He has covered every President from Harding to Nixon, reported on the Teapot Dome and Watergate hearings and, on the side, written the New Republic's weekly column, TRB. Last week Strout was without his gallery card for the first time in 51 years. It was not renewed because he had refused to comply with a new rule handed down by the gallery's five-man governing board. To retain their accreditation, reporters must now promise not to accept...
Sirica returned to Washington later the same year and hung out around the courtrooms, waiting for judges to ask him to take on indigent defendants without pay, just for the experience. In the late 1920s he sat through some of the trials related to the Teapot Dome scandals, fascinated by the courtroom skills of such lawyers as Frank J. Hogan and William E. Leahy: "Perhaps the greatest trial lawyers of this century." He never imagined, of course, that he would one day preside over proceedings in an even worse scandal...