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...Dwight Chapin, Nixon's former appointments secretary, is scheduled to be sentenced in the U.S. District Court on his two-count perjury conviction. Jeb Stuart Magruder, former Nixon re-election committee deputy di rector, has asked to be sentenced about this time. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the cover-up last August...
...list is still growing, but already it resembles a Watergate Who's Who-former Attorney General John Mitchell, former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, former White House Aides H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Dwight Chapin, Herbert Porter and Gordon Strachan, and California Lieu tenant Governor Ed Reinecke. All have been accused of lying at one time or an other during Watergate-related investigations. Chapin and Porter have already been convicted and others are likely to meet the same fate. The Watergate prosecutors seem to be turning up a prevarication in every pot, and the irony of the situation is pain fully...
...person being questioned take sure refuge in familiar evasions like "I do not remember" or "to the best of my recollection." Cagey use of such weaseling can make a later prosecution for lying more difficult, but not impossible. Indeed one of the charges on which Dwight Chapin was convicted was for his claimed failure to remember details of his dealings with Political Saboteur Donald Segretti. The legal theory traces back to the Queen's case in 1820, in which a footman was suspected of having had a lengthy affair with Queen Caroline. Questioned about the matter, a fellow servant...
...from Senator Edmund Muskie that Muskie's campaign had been plagued by a series of strange mishaps: stolen documents, canceled rallies, schedule breakdowns. Then an unnamed Justice Department source revealed that Segretti was under Government investigation and guardedly confirmed Bernstein's suspicion that a connection existed between Segretti and Chapin. Deep Throat then confirmed that the dirty-tricks group was funded by C.R.P. After Woodward and Bernstein's story on Segretti's spy-and-sabotage operation and the Chapin connection appeared on Oct. 15, 1972 ?showing how the President's men sanctioned a massive effort to subvert the election...
Their work had just begun. Sources hinted that if Dwight Chapin was tied to Segretti, higher White House aides for whom Chapin worked were likely involved: perhaps Presidential Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman. In following that lead, the reporters suffered their first crippling setback. They had been imbued from the first with the need for caution?"When in doubt, leave it out," their editors ordered?and had decided early to forgo generalizations in favor of only the specific and solid. They checked every fresh fact against at least two different sources. But the pressure of keeping one scoop ahead...