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...Watergate drama shifts this week to the marble-pillared, chandelier-lit Senate Caucus Room, scene of the Teapot Dome investigation and the Army-McCarthy hearings. Such is the demand for seats that for the first time in Senate history tickets are being issued for the 200 public places...
...only other former Cabinet members ever indicted for a crime were Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall and Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, both because of Teapot Dome...
Mitchell and Stans became the first former Cabinet officials accused of a crime since the Teapot Dome oilfield-leasing scandal of 50 years ago.* They stand charged with being so eager to secure campaign contributions for the reelection of President Nixon that they used their great influence to help a financier, Robert L. Vesco, in his deep troubles with the Government. Then they tried repeatedly to conceal the fact that Vesco had contributed $200,000 in cash to the Nixon re-election committee (see box page...
Some people have compared Watergate to the Teapot Dome scandal. However damaging the comparison is meant to be, there is a marked difference. Mr. Handing did weakly condone corruption, but without benefit to himself. Besides, this same pillaging of public lands and forests goes on at this very moment, without a ripple at headquarters. In contrast, Mr. Nixon stood personally to gain by the theft of Democratic campaign material, as well as by other felonious actions intended to disrupt the Democratic ranks. The circumstantial evidence of his involvement, whether as author, patron, or accessory, is almost airtight; his innocence becomes...
...strongest denunciation was voiced by Senator Bulger, who accused newsmen of making a "tempest in a teapot." They seek martyrdom in this "tempest," he said, in order to profit from the campus lecture circuit. Jack Kelly of WBZ news answered the attack by stating, "I have no desire to visit any campus. I spent four years on one; that was fine." If sources do continue to dry up, Kelly may find the lecture circuit is his only recourse...