Newsweek - USA (2019-11-29)

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Rewind

“People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook,”

President Nixon said, “Well, I’m not a crook.” As the Watergate

scandal escalated, “Mr. Nixon was, in a word, playing the politics of survival,”

Newsweek said. “Operation Candor” was the “last and most desperate campaign

of Richard Nixon’s long life in American politics,” and an effort to “save the

Presidency that has taken him a quarter-century to achieve.” Despite “public

theatrics” and “private promises,” however, he continued to lose support. Faced

with the possibility of impeachment, Nixon resigned as President in 1974.

1993

The arrests of rappers Snoop Doggy Dog

and Tupac Shakur raised “disturbing

questions about ‘gangsta rap’ and its

images of violence in the ‘hood.’” But is

there a link between “capital rhymes and

capital crimes?” asked Newsweek. The

answer: “the problem of urban violence

is much bigger than rap.”

1973

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The Archives

2009

While reporting for Newsweek in Iran,

journalist Maziar Bahari was accused of

spying for “foreign intelligence operations,”

landing him in Tehran’s Evin Prison for

118 days. His story of captivity, described

in Newsweek and in his memoir, Then

They Came for Me, revealed the “corrosive

suspicion” that is “rotting the Islamic

Republic from within.”