Focus on Watergate: An Examination of the Moral Dilemma of Watergate in the Light of Civil Religion

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Mercer University Press, 1982 - 120 páginas

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Acknowledgements
1
Some Problematic Aspects of Civil Religion
10
Watergate and the Nixon Loyalists
19
Watergate and the Politics of Deceit
47
The Fall of the Nixon Presidency
75
The Illusions of Watergate from
91
Index
119
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Página 79 - Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
Página 66 - Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Página 4 - I have promised to uphold the Constitution, to do what is right as God gives me to see the right, and to do the very best that I can for America.
Página 4 - The Constitution is the supreme law of our land and it governs our actions as citizens. Only the laws of God, which govern our consciences, are superior to it. As we are a Nation under God, so I am sworn to uphold our laws with the help of God.
Página 3 - Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Página 4 - I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.
Página 19 - It has come to stand for excessive partisanship, for "enemy lists," for efforts to use the great institutions of Government for partisan political purposes. For many Americans, the term "Watergate" also has come to include a number of national security matters that have been brought into the investigation, such as those involved in my efforts to stop massive leaks of vital diplomatic and military secrets, and to counter the wave of bombings and burnings and other violent assaults of just a few years...

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