Word: wake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before Nixon left Washington, Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren said that substantive talks with the foreign leaders assembled in Paris for Pompidou's wake would be "inappropriate." But meetings were requested by six visiting government leaders (among them Wilson, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny), and Nixon naturally enough honored the requests. The meetings offended some French sensibilities. Complained Le Monde in an editorial: "It was a President under reprieve who stole the show from a dead President." Nonetheless, his aides pointed to the sessions as evidence that world leaders look on Nixon as vital...
Hardly anybody is happy with the way Americans pay for their elections. The public does not like it-particularly in the wake of Watergate, with its repellent disclosures of arm twisting and fund laundering, briefcases stuffed with $100 bills and blatant influence peddling. "Money, money, money is what has got the people of this country disgusted with politics and politicians," laments Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Hugh Scott. Hubert Humphrey calls fund raising "the most demeaning, disgusting, depressing and disenchanting" chore in public life. Those who are tapped like it no better...
Somewhat trite and rhetorical comments indeed, to describe the national trauma left in the wake of the Watergate scandals. But these words from a moderate upstate New York Republican congressman represent the sort of thinking that very well may have Richard Nixon standing trial before the Senate by mid-summer...
...wake up to read that a director has been picked and the Institute established," she said...
...civil rights movement that had been gaining momentum in the United States all through the sixties. Black studies had been talked about at Harvard ever since the University decided to turn down a foundation grant to establish an African studies program in the early fifties. In the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination, it was generally assumed that the University would have to stop talking about the program and begin...