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...telephoned instructions from the same stranger, McCord met Caulfield quot;at the second overlookquot; on the George Washington Memorial Parkway along the Potomac. They talked in Caulfield's car. This was after McCord's Watergate trial had got under way. Caulfield said he had an offer to grant Executive clemency to McCord if he would change his plea to guilty and remain silent. The offer, said Caulfield, was quot;from the very highest levels of the White House.quot; He added that Nixon had been told of Caulfield's impending meeting with McCord and would be immediately informed...
...again on the Potomac overlook, and Caulfield warned: quot;The President's ability to govern is at stake. Another Teapot Dome scandal is possible, and the Government may fall. Everybody else is on track but you. You are not following the game plan. You seem to be pursuing your own course of action. Do not talk if called before the grand jury; keep silent and do the same if called before a congressional committee.quot; But McCord reiterated that he would not make any deal...
...McCord and Caulfield met and drove toward Warrenton, Va., in Caulfield's car. Caulfield again offered Executive clemency, financial support for McCord's family while he served what would be a short prison term, and a job when he got out. McCord said that he would not keep quiet and planned to talk publicly about the case "when I was ready." Warned Caulfield: "You know that if the Administration gets its back to the wall, it will have to take steps to defend itself." Testified McCord: "I took that as a personal threat, and I told him that...
Dirty Business. Caulfield, a former New York City police detective who joined Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign staff as chief of security, is now a $31,200-a-year Treasury Department official in charge of enforcing laws regulating firearms, alcohol and tobacco. He issued a press statement saying that McCord had tried "fully and fairly" to recall their conversations, but that he disagreed with the testimony in some unspecified respects. Still, he conceded, "it is true that I met with Mr. McCord on three occasions in January and conveyed to him certain messages from a high White House official...
There are, however, significant differences between McCord's testimony before the Ervin committee and what Caulfield has in the past told the Watergate grand jury. Caulfield testified that he conveyed an offer from Counsel John Dean to McCord under which McCord might be given clemency after a short prison term, as well as an amount of money, if he remained quiet. But this was only done, Caulfield insisted, because McCord had asked for such help from the White House and had threatened to tell all he knew if it were not given. If true, Caulfield's version does...