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Cross-examined by William Hundley, Mitchell's lawyer, Colson struck back by recalling an incident shortly after the 1972 Watergate breakin. Colson said he had told Mitchell that he hoped Hunt was not involved. According to Colson, Mitchell replied: "He is up to his ears in it." That indicated an early knowledge that Mitchell has repeatedly denied...
...admission that Magruder had put aside $6,000 in campaign funds for his own use. Magruder sheepishly insisted that the money was for "legitimate expenses," especially legal costs, but conceded that he had told the FBI that he had tried to obtain money "for self-preservation" after the Watergate breakin...
...tapes show that President Nixon knew about and participated in the cover-up within days after the Watergate breakin...
...last-ditch defenders in the U.S. would have been embarrassed to offer. The commentators referred several times to the "socalled Watergate affair" without once explaining it or even suggesting that Nixon had done anything to warrant removal from office. Neither Zamyatin nor Zorin ever mentioned the Watergate breakin, the coverup, the indictments of so many Nixon aides, the Nixon income tax imbroglio, the incriminating tapes, the articles of impeachment, or the falsehoods that the former President admitted in his fatal Aug. 5 statement...
Begins Two days after the arrest, White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler dismisses the affair as "a third-rate burglary attempt," adding that "certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is." But others are less blase. Within hours of the breakin, FBI agents find Hunt's name in the address books of Barker and Martinez. Administration officials are also worried because Hunt and Liddy were involved in another secret operation, the White House plumbers, set up in mid-1971 to stop security leaks and investigate other sensitive security matters...