2022 G.M. Graff Watergate 103: [Nixon] now held real power over the Joint Chiefs [...] [Admiral] Moorer specifically would owe him big-time.at big-time, adv.
2022 G.M. Graff Watergate 97: Days later, a column by Evans and Novak aired the long-building dirty laundry between Sullivan and Hoover.at dirty laundry (n.) under dirty, adj.
2022 G.M. Graff Watergate 387: Woodward had no sense of the internal drama that had gone down at the FBI .at go down, v.
2022 G.M. Graff Watergate 154: After flunking his test assignment with Martha, Baldwin was quickly reassigned by McCord.at flunk, v.
2022 G.M. Graff Watergate XX: [A] broader umbrella of nearly a dozen other distinct but related scandals: the Chennault Affair, the Huston Plan, [...] campaign ‘rat fucking’.at rat fucking, n.
2022 G.M. Graff Watergate 649: ‘Let them impeach me [...] We’ll fight it out to the end.’ Nixon would grit it out .at grit (it) out (v.) under grit, n.1
2022 G.M. Graff Watergate 598: The requested tapes represented ‘inadmissible hearsay,’ since Nixon himself wasn’t a member of the Watergate conspiracy. The argument was a clear Hail Mary pass .at Hail Mary, adj.
2022 G.M. Graff Watergate 199: [T]he chief of staff explained that it wouldn’t be easy to hang the burglars out to dry entirely.at hang someone out to dry (v.) under hang, v.2
2022 G.M. Graff Watergate 130: [T]he well-respected and hard-nosed Richard McLaren.at hard-nosed, adj.
2022 G.M. Graff Watergate 296: [Tip O’Neill] had witnessed plenty of hardball politics and thought he knew the world of dirty tricks inside and out .at hardball, adj.
2022 G.M. Graff Watergate 141: Rebozo had made himself into a wealthy [...] real estate investor through strong hustle amid the booming postwar Florida real estate market.at hustle, n.
2022 G.M. Graff Watergate 233: The Nixon team was secretive and iced him out even before the Times imbroglio over the Pentagon Papers, leaving him to get scrappy to find information.at ice, v.
2022 G.M. Graff Watergate 56: A big part of Kalmbach’s role was safeguarding the Nixon campaign’s cash kitty.at kitty, n.1
2022 G.M. Graff Watergate XXX: Nixon drank too much and couldn’t hold his alcohol [...] just a drink or two could make him loopy.at loopy, adj.
2022 G.M. Graff Watergate 123: Magruder had sought [...] ways to mess with Muskie and his fellow Democratic candidates.at mess with, v.
2022 G.M. Graff Watergate 199: Ehrlichman seemed to perk up when he heard the former attorney general was involved.at perk up, v.
2022 G.M. Graff Watergate 118: At dinner in California with a woman he hoped to recruit as a potential plant in the Democratic campaign [etc].at plant, n.
2022 G.M. Graff Watergate 146: Kalmbach [...] leaned hard on deep pockets, crisscrossing the country to meet informally with corporate leaders and influential Republicans.at deep pockets (n.) under pocket, n.
2022 G.M. Graff Watergate 233: The Nixon team was secretive and iced him out even before the Times imbroglio over the Pentagon Papers, leaving him to get scrappy to find information.at scrappy, adj.
2022 G.M. Graff Watergate 250: [S]tarting his own practice in 1934, scrounging moderate success and living almost hand to mouth.at scrounge, n.
2022 G.M. Graff Watergate 288: Nixon had promised that he would make the [Washington] Post pay for its meddling, and after the election, he began the squeeze.at squeeze, n.1
2022 G.M. Graff Watergate 321: Felt believed he stood a good chance of taking over the bureau if Gray’s nomination tanked .at tank, v.1
2022 G.M. Graff Watergate 90: [A] staffer from the CIA’s Technical Services Division [...] The tech went by the pseudonym ‘Steve’.at tech, n.