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The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

The administration of President Richard Nixon ordered wiretapping of the telephones of government officials and newspaper reporters to uncover sources of leaked information about the secret bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War. This illegal wiretapping eventually led to the Watergate scandal and Nixon's resignation. write-in candidate A candidate for public office whose name does not appear on the ballot (usually because he or she has not secured the nomination of a political party) but whose name must be written on the ballot by voters.

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I don't think there was any more or less wiretapping" during the Nixon administration than in previous years, the FBI's intelligence division chief James Adams said. However, "what was unusual about this [was] that it involved wiretaps on the NSC staff, on individuals that were part of the White House family." Administration officials had previously ordered wiretaps to spy on potentially criminal union leaders and organized mobsters. A wiretapping program set against one's own staff was, according to another top FBI official, Thomas Smith, "unprecedented.

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In the United States Congress or state legislatures, an assistant to the majority leader or minority leader responsible for stirring up party support on issues, keeping track of party members' votes, and acting as a general liaison between the majority leader or minority leader and other party members. wiretapping The use of any electronic device to intercept and eavesdrop on private telephone conversations.

This illegal wiretapping eventually led to the Watergate scandal and Nixon's resignation. write-in candidate A candidate for public office whose name does not appear on the ballot (usually because he or she has not secured the nomination of a political party) but whose name must be written on the ballot by voters. Yankee Originally a nickname for people from New England, now applied to anyone from the United States. Even before the American Revolution, the term Yankee was used by the British to refer, derisively, to the American colonists.

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Ex-members of the LEIU admit to illegal wiretapping, breaking and entering, and spying on people to gather information for their files. SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle, 11/25/78, "Leaks to the Mob: U.S. Police Network's Big Problem"; Penthouse, 1976, "America's Secret Police Network," by George O'Toole. UPDATE: A year after the LEIU Censored nomination in 1978, the American Friends Service Committee released a 3 1/2-year study that revealed that police surveillance of groups and individuals for political purposes is continuing "on a vast scale" in the United States.

In the wake of the TWA 800 tragedy and the Olympic bombing in Atlanta, there was renewed pressure in Washington to expand federal authority for wiretapping. 3. The Continuing Censorship of the Nuclear Issue 1980 SYNOPSIS: Three Mile Island (TMI), the worst accident in the history of the commercial nuclear energy program in the United States, proved to be a blessing for pro-nuclear propagandists. Using the catch phrase "no one died at TMI," the nuclear power industry embarked on a slick nationwide campaign to resell nuclear power to the American public.

In August 1996, in the wake of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing and the TWA Flight 800 explosion off New York, efforts were made to further strengthen the bill by adding provisions, supported by Clinton, to add taggants to gun powder and to significantly increase the FBI's wiretapping authority. Both provisions were killed by the House Republican leadership as Congress was rushing to adjourn (New York Times Service, 8/12/96). 3. Nicaragua: Fair Elections Versus an Unfair Press 1984 SYNOPSIS: Contrary to U.S.

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Nevertheless, the agency generally ignores this area of inquiry and devotes a major portion of its resources and manpower to wiretapping, bugging, and following health lecturers in an attempt to catch them making a claim that, even though it may be true, comes into conflict with an FDA ruling.

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Administration officials had previously ordered wiretaps to spy on potentially criminal union leaders and organized mobsters. A wiretapping program set against one's own staff was, according to another top FBI official, Thomas Smith, "unprecedented."4749 Deputy FBI director William Sullivan was charged with overseeing Kissinger's wiretap operation. Hoover later discharged Sullivan for insubordination since he was suspected of plotting against the FBI director for the benefit of the CIA and Nixon White House officials—particularly Haig and Kissinger.

He said, Hoover "resolved that he would have to go to Congress with the facts" regarding the "wiretapping of the news media, the National Security Council staff and of Ellsberg." Undoubtedly, Nixon, Kissinger, Haig, and other NSC staffers feared this as well. The last straw was a Nixon-damning expose that Hoover fed Life. It spilled the beans on how "the White House had intervened to help" Arnholt Smith, "one of Nixon's best friends, and a bookmaker called John Alessio, another Nixon backer, to shake off corruption and tax charges.

Demac wrote: Richard Nixon, for example, for whom journalists were a persistent headache, eventually had intelligence agents wiretapping reporters' telephone lines, opening their mail, and raiding press offices. Such measures were believed to have ended when Nixon left office. [However,]. .. the Reagan administration also authorized the FBI and CIA to search newsrooms and institute a stream of ad hoc restrictions. It was primarily interested ...

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