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...denouement was jarring in its swift resolution and therefore a bit surreal. Nearly 800 days after the Watergate breakin, 289 days after the Saturday Night Massacre, 97 days after the White House transcripts were released, twelve days after the Supreme Court voted, 8 to 0, that the President must surrender 64 more tapes, five days after the House Judiciary Committee voted out articles of impeachment, Nixon's defenses finally vanished. On Monday he issued the June 23, 1972 transcript that amounted to a confession to obstruction of justice and to lying to the American people and his own defense counsel...
...statement that "portions of the tapes of these . . . conversations are at variance with certain of my previous statements." The extraordinarily revealing transcripts were of conversations that he had held with H.R. Haldeman, then White House chief of staff, on June 23, 1972, just six days after the Watergate breakin. The most incriminating portions of those talks...
...judge in the Ellsberg trial of this burglary since "there was no legal obligation to report the break-in." In fact, the judge had been seeking information about the Government's investigatory tactics against Ellsberg for weeks and dismissed the case when he learned of this White House-directed breakin...
...most brazen attempted use of the tax power by the White House was its persistent effort to destroy the reputation of Democratic National Chairman Larry O'Brien just before the 1972 election. Not only was O'Brien's phone bugged (in the Watergate breakin, the device failed to work), but John
...summation to the jury, Assistant Special Prosecutor William Merrill said that it was not necessary to prove that Ehrlichman had ordered a breakin. It was sufficient to show that he had approved a covert operation to get the information. William S. Prates, Ehrlichman's chief defense counsel, indignantly objected. "They're trying to make you the jury believe that the word covert is an illegal operation. It doesn't mean illegal...