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Sep 17, 2020 · His departure from office marked the first peaceful transfer of power between political opponents in the United States, now viewed as a hallmark of the nation’s democracy.
- Sarah Pruitt
- Watergate. The scandal that all other scandals are measured against (what isn’t a “-gate” these days?) first made headlines as an odd break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters and eventually brought down a president.
- Gary Hart. The Democratic senator from Colorado “was as close to a lock for the nomination — and likely the presidency — as any challenger of the modern era” in the 1988 election, wrote Matt Bai, who profiled Hart’s fall from grace in a recent book.
- The Eagleton Affair. Hart was the campaign manager for eventual 1972 Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern. But McGovern's status as nominee going into the party’s convention was uncertain, so the campaign did not undertake an exhaustive search for a running mate.
- Bill Clinton, Gennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky. During his 1992 run for president, Clinton was dogged by past rumors of extramarital affairs. Those rumors hit the tabloids when Flowers, an Arkansas state employee, alleged that she and Clinton carried on a 12-year fling.
Ronald Reagan called the peaceful transfer of power from oneU.S. president to the next a miracle, and it is. It is also themost delicate and hazardous period in... Front Matter
Dec 8, 2020 · This analysis looks at how John F. Kennedy’s transition into the presidency in 1960 and 1961 contributed to the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, a CIA-backed attack in April 1961 aimed at removing Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power. The study finds that a presidential transition “is a moment of acute vulnerability for the United ...
Jan 22, 2022 · Download chapter PDF. The prevalence of scandal in American politics, at all levels of government, provides ample opportunity for an exploration of the causes and consequences of moral wrongdoing in contemporary politics.
- Robert Busby
- busbyr@hope.ac.uk
Oct 21, 2016 · There was good reason to be skeptical of the ability of a diverse political community to sustain itself through internal conflict. All the more important, then, was the goal of designing a set of rules to govern the distribution, exercise, and transfer of power—a constitution.
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The scandal is not just “made” by the media, but also by the public. 3 The main purpose of this article is testing Lull and Hinerman’s proposition by the 1967 CIA scandal, in focusing on the interaction between the political-social climate, journalistic culture, and the development of the scandal.
