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...Nixon and a former aide, Charles Colson...
...ultimate orders were given by Barker to the Cubans, Hunt to Barker, and Liddy to Hunt. This is also in Magruder's book although this order is not in Magruder's book: they just said beat me up. Colson called him up. Take advantage of the fact, he said, that there is an antiwar rally at the same time that J. Edgar Hoover is lying in state. This will confuse the public mind that Ellsberg is demonstrating against Hoover. Which is what they told the Cubans--Hunt told the Cubans that they were to protect J. Edgar Hoover's catavault...
...attorneys pounced on a reference in early galleys of Hunt's book to what he described as attempts by Ben-Veniste to get him to give false testimony. According to Hunt, this occurred when Ben-Veniste grilled him about his claim that he had never discussed clemency with Colson. But Ben-Veniste got Hunt to admit that he had indeed been lying about the clemency commitments and that no prosecutor had ever asked him to tell anything but the truth...
...received secret payments after his arrest, not merely to meet legal fees but so "that I would not reveal my knowledge of the Watergate affair." Also contradicting his previous testimony, he admitted that he had been given guarded White House assurances of Executive clemency through his former boss, Charles Colson...
...Nixon-Ford administration. In December 1972, the California Supreme Court had to halt an attempt by the Teamsters and the growers, working in collusion, to keep the UFW and its organizers out of the fields. The Teamsters made large and illegal contributions to the Nixon re-election fund; Charles Colson wrote memos instructing the National Labor Relations Board, the Justice Department and the Labor Department to stay out of the dispute unless they could harass the UFW. Nixon made a point of publicly eating non-UFW grapes...