Word: corruptable
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...speaks more eloquently than any words to the character of a leader who has raised lying to the level of official policy. And even if we believe the tapes, even if they are arranged to exculpate the President, they will not exonerate him for other offenses of "the most corrupt administration in American history...
...visit to Harvard two weeks ago, Senator McGovern was asked why he was no longer saying day after day that this was the most corrupt administration in American history. He replied: "I don't need to say it anymore; everyone knows it." The Congress does know it; the American people know it. Now the question is whether they will do something about it--or accept a Watergate mythology which expects nothing more of government than the unworthy and shameful record of the Nixon years...
...Justice Department under Attorney General John Mitchell indicted Hall and seven other Seafarers' Union officials for violations of the Corrupt Practices Act, which makes it illegal for corporations or unions to donate money to political campaigns. The case against Hall was strong. The Government reportedly had witnesses ready to testify that the union forced them to contribute to political causes, a practice so widespread within the union that the Seafarers' Political Activity Donation Fund (SPAD) was the richest such fund within the AFL-CIO and enabled Hall to disburse nearly $ 1,000,000 in campaign donations...
While Hall and his lieutenants waited for the ax to fall, however, the Government unaccountably sat on its hands. Curiously, the Justice Department at the same time was preparing its case against United Mine Workers Boss Tony Boyle under the same Corrupt Practices Act. But while the Boyle case ended in prosecution and conviction, the one against Hall was dismissed by the court in May last year on the grounds that the Government had not pushed it in prompt fashion. The Justice Department did not appeal the decision, in effect simply dropping the case...
...joint administrators of the investigation of the Harding Administration's Teapot Dome scandal. Twice in the past dozen years, Chicago has turned to Attorney Barnabas Sears to pursue charges involving the city's police force. In New York City, Judge Samuel Seabury raked and ultimately broke the corrupt Roaring Twenties administration of Mayor Jimmy Walker; Thomas Dewey probed the "politico-criminal alliance" that underlay the city's racketeering...