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...Truth. A critical difference between the versions is the "it would be wrong" quote reported by Haldeman. He also contends that Nixon never indicated at the meeting that he had discussed clemency with Colson or Ehrlichman. But whether Nixon was "leading" Dean on with his questions and trying "to smoke him out" to see how guilty he might be, as Haldeman implied, or was approvingly going over the cover-up details, as Dean suggested, would seem open to each listener's interpretation...
...memo was sent by Charles W. Colson, then a White House special counsel, to H.R. Haldeman, then the President's chief of staff, on March 30, 1972. It turned up last week when the Ervin committee subpoenaed a secretary of Colson's and asked her to bring along her files. The purpose of the Colson memo was to urge the Administration to withdraw its nomination of Richard Kleindienst as Attorney General-a nomination that was subsequently approved by the Senate. Colson's point at the time was that the Senate investigation of Kleindienst might conceivably turn...
...various documents to which Colson referred all dealt with efforts by ITT in early 1971 to enlist the Administration's support in quashing three separate antitrust suits under way against the corporation. U.S. district courts had previously ruled against the Government in two of the cases, which involved two lesser ITT subsidiaries, Grinnell Corp. and Canteen Corp. But Richard W. McLaren, head of the Justice Department's antitrust division, who had strenuously pressed the litigation, had already made known the Government's intention to appeal to the Supreme Court. The third and most important case, involving...
...August 1970, according to Colson, ITT Vice President Edward J. Gerrity Jr. had written to Agnew, an old friend from Army days: "Our problem is to get John Mitchell the facts concerning McLaren's attitude because . . . McLaren seems to be running all by himself." In a meeting between ITT President Harold S. Geneen and Presidential Assistant John Ehrlichman, Gerrity continued, Ehrlichman had "said flatly that the President was not enforcing a bigness-is-bad policy [against ITT], and that the President had instructed the Justice Department along these lines." This document, Colson noted, was embarrassing because it "tends...
Neither the White House nor ITT had any comment on the Colson memo last week; neither did McLaren, who on Dec. 2, 1971, was appointed by President Nixon to a federal judgeship. Colson, however, insisted that as "a good staff guy," he had merely been playing the part of "a devil's advocate"-outlining the problems that the Judiciary Committee might raise "in their worst context...