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Among them: the $6.4 million damage suit filed by the Democratic National Committee after the Watergate breakin, and the Common Cause suit demanding disclosure of all contributions made to the Nixon campaign before April 7, 1972, when the new full-disclosure campaign law took effect...
Liddy was so anxious to destroy evidence of his own involvement in the Watergate breakin, said Mardian, that he even shredded the wrappers from soap bars he had collected in various hotels, as well as several $100 bills that might be identifiable as part of the cam paign contributions...
While some of the key witnesses yet to appear before the Senate Watergate committee may well back John Mitchell's story that President Nixon was long unaware of his aides' involvement in the breakin, they are expected to implicate each other as well as Mitchell in the coverup. These witnesses include Herbert W. Kalmbach, H.R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Gordon Strachan. Their testimony would leave the President with few wholly untarnished defenders in a position to know what the President might have known...
...Nixon and Watergate are almost as complex and contradictory as the testimony in the Senate. In a Gallup poll taken in the wake of John Dean's devastating appearance, fully 71% believe that the President was involved in either the planning or the cover-up of the Watergate breakin. If Nixon was indeed involved, then he is guilty of criminal acts that would presumably be grounds for impeachment. Yet the same survey showed that only 18% think Nixon "should be compelled to leave office...
...Gordon Liddy. who pleaded guilty to the Watergate breakin. Other lawyers not on Dean's list but involved in different ways in Watergate...