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...link to Watergate, Baker had written a 35-page, unpublished report on the subject with some help from Colson. But Baker aides claim that there is nothing in the report to substantiate Colson's charge that the agency had a role in planning or executing the Watergate breakin, much less in plotting against the President...
...hearing was on Nixon's nomination of Earl J. Silbert to be U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. He was a member of the original Justice Department team that investigated the Watergate breakin, and the Senators were far from happy with its performance. But Ervin made it clear that he felt the blame for the original investigation's failure should rest primarily on Petersen and Richard Kleindienst, who was Attorney General at the time...
...outbursts did not divert Ervin. He asked one question after another about why investigators had not followed up evidence pointing to the likelihood that Nixon's re-election committee and the White House were deeply involved in the planning and financing of the Watergate breakin. Petersen replied that he had let White House and campaign officials avoid testifying before the Watergate grand jury to spare them publicity, and that he had called Silbert off other aspects of the case out of caution. Perhaps, he allowed, he had showed "too much restraint...
...Columnists Evans and Novak speculated that he was retaliating for the unkind things said about him in the transcripts. Nixon had called him a "name-dropper" who "talks too much." The President also said that he "may well have been the triggerman" of the Watergate breakin. H.R. Haldeman characterized him as "an operator in expediency." Others last week felt just the opposite-that Colson's move was only the most devious of his many political ruses, this one designed ultimately to exonerate the President...
...apparent failure to rule out the payment of hush money to the Watergate burglars. At one point Nixon told Dean, "Get it," and investigators later confirmed that $75,000 was delivered that very night to the lawyer for E. Howard Hunt Jr., one of those convicted of staging the breakin. Also, the jurors were convinced that the President's statement, "It would be wrong, that's for sure," did not refer to the payment of bribes. In context, the statement appears to refer to the granting of clemency ?and to have been made out of political, not moral, considerations...