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...Brien had angered the President by shrewdly exploiting a never proved charge that the Nixon Administration had settled an antitrust suit against ITT favorably to the giant corporation in return for financial help to hold the 1972 Republican National Convention in San Diego. Haldeman contends that Nixon and Colson, who had a personal hatred for O'Brien from old political campaigns in Massachusetts, hoped the Watergate bugs would turn up damaging information about O'Brien's lucrative ($180,000 a year, according to Haldeman) work as a lobbyist for a company owned by Billionaire Howard Hughes...
...Writes Haldeman: "I believe it is almost certain that Nixon asked Colson to help him nail O'Brien. Colson naturally turned to Hunt. [E. Howard Hunt, a retired CIA agent used by Colson as an investigator.] And Hunt tried to do it by tapping O'Brien's telephone at the Watergate...
...contrast, Haldeman contends, the crafty Colson became a Nixon intimate by deliberately appealing to Nixon's vindictive instincts. And that volatile combination of the unchecked worst in both Nixon and Colson, Haldeman suggests, was the cause of Watergate...
...does Haldeman know that? Says he: "This isn't mere conjecture on my part. It's backed up by Nixon's own words, as revealed over and over again in the tapes. Nixon knew what had happened." Indeed, various Nixon tapes do show him believing that "Colson must have done it," "There's no way he wasn't involved." This evidence is neither new nor indisputable. Colson, predictably enough, said last week that "Haldeman's reconstruction of events may be the biggest hoax since Clifford Irving...
...know one thing. I can't stand an FBI interrogation of Colson ... Colson can talk about the President, if he cracks. You know I was on Colson's tail for months to nail Larry O'Brien on the Hughes deal. Colson told me he was going to get the information I wanted one way or the other. And that was O'Brien's office they were bugging, wasn't it? And who's behind it? Colson's boy Hunt. Christ. Colson called [Magruder] and got the whole operation started. Right from...