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...cover-up?promises of Executive clemency and payoffs to keep the conspirators quiet?both of which could be considered obstruction of justice. The White House offered a totally different version of the discussion of the $1,000,000. Nixon was said to have dismissed such payments as "blackmail" and scoffed at paying it. Also, the White House claimed that this topic came up on March 21 rather than this date...
...claims that Conspirator Hunt was threatening to reveal his past spying activities as a White House leak-plugging "plumber" unless he was paid up to $1,000,000. The President, by this account, told Dean: "What makes you think he would be satisfied with that?" Nixon "stated it was blackmail, that it was wrong, that it would not work, that the truth would come out anyway." Dean, on the other hand, told the Ervin staff that Hunt had demanded $72,000 in hush money, plus $50,000 in legal fees-and that Ehrlichman assured him that John Mitchell had arranged...
...famous door-slamming exit that climaxes Ibsen's once scandalous play about a bourgeois woman liberating herself from a claustrophobic marriage no longer shocks. The melodramatic blackmail plot in which she is ensnared for much of the time now seems a rather forced theatrical convention, not worthy of the playwright's thesis or a modern audience's interest. Its disclosure to her husband, which in turn exposes him as a hypocrite more concerned about his own status than his wife's reputation, seems both simple-minded and rather too specifically linked to a time (the late...
...Publish and be damned!" the Duke of Wellington scrawled across the letter of Harriette Wilson, a Mayfair call girl who threatened to blackmail him with her intimate memoirs. She published (in 1825) and he became Prime Minister (in 1828), recalls H. Montgomery Hyde, a former M.P. who studiously attempts in the Observer to place the current Lord Lambton-Lord Jellicoe sex scandals in historical per spective. Lloyd George was one of Britain's most notorious amorous Prime Ministers. But he was a man of stern principle, to wit: "Love is all right if you lose no time...
Dorothy Uhnak's Law and Order is a novel that uses three generations of Irish cops to explore the way the department actually works. The plot is a tangle of corruption, sex scandals, blackmail and professional and family loyalties. The Super Cops are Dave Greenberg and Bob Hantz, two real police heroes who patrolled a black Brooklyn ghetto with such derring-do that drug pushers and grateful residents dubbed them Batman and Robin. Also nonfiction, Serpico is about Frank Serpico, the patrolman whose charges of widespread corruption in the New York police department were eventually documented by the Knapp...