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...private testimony, Dean claimed that Nixon knew of the cover-up "at least" as early as Sept. 15, 1972. That was the day the Watergate indictments were announced. They were limited to the low-level men arrested for the breakin. At this time, according to Dean, Nixon praised him, and Dean assumed this was because he had helped keep the investigation confined to those functionaries. About the same time, Dean said, the President ordered his staff to apply pressure to the House Banking and Currency Committee to abort its plans to hold Watergate hearings. The hearings were canceled when...
...White House-inspired version also set up a counter to Dean's well-publicized contention that Nixon had discussed with him raising as much as $1,000,000 in hush money and had said that it could be paid to the men arrested for the breakin. The Thompson paper put this in different perspective. It 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...
...became known last week that Hunt has told Ervin committee investigators that Colson called him last year on May 15, the day Alabama Governor George C. Wallace was shot, and just two weeks before the first Watergate breakin. Hunt said Colson asked him to burglarize the assailant's Milwaukee apartment to see if anything could be found to connect Arthur H. Bremer with leftist causes. Hunt refused on the ground that official investigators already would be examining Bremer's quarters and might catch...
...arrested and that the men were carrying cash that could possibly be traced to the Nixon organization. This second break-in had been made to remedy malfunctioning eavesdropping equipment. Testified Magruder: "There was no question that the cover-up began that Saturday when we realized there was a breakin. I do not think there was ever any discussion that there would not be a cover-up." Why? Magruder said he thought that if it became known that anyone as high in the campaign as Mitchell was involved in the burglary plans "the President would lose the election...
...judge from the depositions given by Haldeman and Ehrlichman in the Democratic Party's $6.4 million civil suit against C.R.P., the Watergate conspiracy was sheer confusion. Nobody was sure what he was doing or what any one else was doing before or after the breakin. Ehrlichman described an initial meeting of Mitchell, Dean, Magruder and Liddy in early 1972. An intelligence-gathering system proposed by Liddy was so "grandiose and extreme," said Ehrlichman, that it was turned down flat by the three others...