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Based on what Nixon has said to me in the past and what Haldeman now implies, I expect to hear a 1971 tape some day in which Richard Nixon tells Charles Colson that Howard Hunt's plan to break into Dr. Fielding's office is approved...
...they are dead wrong about why. Nixon didn't need someone to bug O'Brien to establish a Hughes connection; Nixon knew positively that O'Brien was on Hughes' payroll. He knew it well before the Watergate burglary; so did the IRS, the Secretary of the Treasury (George Schultz), Colson and I. An IRS audit of Hughes' tax returns had disclosed the Hughes-to-O'Brien payments. A routine IRS Sensitive Case Report informed the President of O'Brien's appearance in the Hughes investigation (along with the President's brother Don and other celebrities). All that is a matter...
...here was Larry O'Brien, a secret Hughes lobbyist?and no one cared enough to dig out the proof about O'Brien's connection with Hughes. I believe it is almost certain that Nixon asked Colson to help him 'nail' O'Brien. Colson naturally turned to Hunt. And Hunt tried to do it by tapping O'Brien's telephone at Watergate...
...Colson was the shrewd one, though, everybody thought he was crazy but he had the best marketing sense of all of them...
...Colson saw the potential in the religious bookstore market, so he hardly wrote about Watergate at all. Just about how nice it was for Jesus to have sublimated those overpowering urges to stomp his grandmother in the name of the Republican Party...