"I was terribly disappointed in those [Watergate] tapes. Not only disappointed, but just overwhelmingly sickened by them. Oh, t he language. I'd never heard him use those words. I didn't even know he knew them. . . . I went too far when I did things to help him [Nixon] politically. I should have limited myself to the moral and spiritual situation in the country."

Source: Charles Hirshberg, "The Eternal Crusader," Life, 9 (November 1994): 114, 116

Religious Round Table.

The sharp political and cultural divisions of the nation and the chaotic economic situation created by the costs of the Vietnam War and the oil crises of 1973 and 1979 created a situation for a possible alignment of political and religious conservatives. In 1976 Paul Weyrich organized the Christian Voice, a self-proclaimed conservative body that rated politicians on the religious value of their political actions. In 1979 other religious conservatives created other political...