Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...persuade top CIA officials to intercede with the FBI in order to impede the FBI's investigation of the money found on the arrested Watergate burglars. That tape, in which Nixon instructed Haldeman to ask the CIA to do this, put the lie to Nixon's repeated claim that he had not tried to block the criminal investigation into Watergate and had wanted only to protect any CIA secrets involving national security. It showed his real fear was that the money would be traced to his re-election committee, and protecting his own political standing was his real...
There are many lesser, but intriguing, stories in the book. Haldeman claims the White House taping system was originated so that Nixon could have a check on anyone who might later misrepresent what was said in the Oval Office-and one of his main concerns was Kissinger. Nixon, Haldeman writes, "knew that Henry's view on a particular subject was sometimes subject to change without notice." Nixon did not destroy his tapes because at first he felt he would never have to give them up and later he thought they could be used to discredit John Dean. Haldeman flatly...
Haldeman, who is expected to be released from Lompoc prison as early as this summer, is currently insulated from the storm his book is stirring. It certainly is not, as he concedes, the full story of Watergate, and is far from the final one. Despite the claim that his aim was finally to "tell the truth" about the scandal, his book is too self-protective for that...
...latest round of heavy fighting, which began during the last week of January around Harar, the Ethiopians say they have lost 500 to 700 dead and 1,500 wounded and have killed some 2,000 Somali army regulars. The actual figures are almost certainly higher, but the Ethiopian claim to have taken only 17 prisoners is probably accurate: both sides expect their soldiers to die fighting, and each side claims the other has special squads to eliminate troops that surrender...
...Cabot's claim is plausible. The stocks, purchased last year, have appreciably declined in value, as have many bank stocks, and a periodic housecleaning of a large portfolio is to be expected. The stocks may have depreciated at least partially because of mounting political pressure. It is difficult to ignore the political significance of the sale; still, taking the University at its word, the decision should have had political, as well as financial consideration...