Word: ambassadorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chuck Colson and H.R. Haldeman, began hinting that Watergate may have been, after all, a CIA operation; and it peaked when John Ehrlichman wrote The Company, which featured a CIA director very much like Richard Helms black-mailing a President very much like Richard Nixon: give me an ambassadorship or I'll expose Watergate's sleazy underside. Why the hell would I want to be ambassador to Iran? says Helms...
Giamatti's acceptance of the presidence last December 20 ended the Yale Corporation's nine-month search for a successor to Kingman Brewster Jr. After 14 tumultuous years in New Haven, Brewster opted for London and the United States ambassadorship to England, a position many thought suited him well. With Brewster's departure, the Yale Corporation had a chance to revamp Yale's Waspish image. Hannah E. Gray, Yale's provost and then acting president, was said to be in the running. But one week before the decision was announced, Gray forfeited, accepting an offer to become president...
...Washington, some legislators called for Young's impeachment. Said Idaho Republican Steve Symms: "His ambassadorship seems more favorable to the Soviet Union than to the United States." In Chicago, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said that Young "should learn discipline or should not continue in his post." Lawrence P. McDonald, a Georgia Democrat (and member of the John Birch Society) introduced a motion in the House of Representatives to impeach Young; it failed...
...would depend on a particularly lunatic display by the admittedly eccentric California electorate--would be a return trip to the Senate. But despite the rumors--that he is preparing for a Senate run, or that he is awaiting the return of a Republican administration to provide him with an ambassadorship to somewhere in the Far East, perhaps China--the greatest danger is not that Nixon will return to public office. It is that he might return to plague the American heart...
...Vatican that marks the election of a new Pope, the wisps coming out of Yale Professor Emeritus Edgar Boell's chimney lately have been signaling the imminent end of Yale's seven-month search for a successor to Kingman Brewster, who resigned last April to accept the ambassadorship to the Court of St. James's. Last week William Bundy, chairman of the corporation's eight-member presidential search committee, announced that the list of candidates to be Yale's 18th president-once as high as 400-had been narrowed to ten finalists. Early next week...