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President Nixon commuted Hoffa's sentence, but the parole granted to him bars him from holding union office until 1980. Hoffa believes that former presidential aide Charles Colson was behind the ruling...
...indicted six days earlier in the Wategate cover-up on charges that carry a possible penalty of another 25 years. He and the other six cover-up conspirators pleaded innocent to all charges last week before Judge Sirica. The others were Haldeman, Colson, John Mitchell, Robert Mardian, Gordon Strachan and Kenneth Parkinson. At the same time, Colson and Ehrlichman pleaded not guilty to the Fielding burglary charges. All were ordered to surrender their passports and to notify the court of any change of address...
...conference praised some of his former top aides for refusing in the past to use "the shield of the Fifth Amendment as they could have and plead self-incrimination." They had testified "freely," he said, and they had not sought immunity or engaged in "plea bargaining" with prosecutors. Actually, Colson had declared that he would take the Fifth Amendment if called before the Senate Watergate committee. Ehrlichman's lawyers did plea bargain but rejected Jaworski's final offer. Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Mitchell may have testified freely, but according to the grand jury indictments, they did so falsely...
...told him it was principally coming from [E. Howard] Hunt through his attorney. The President then referred to the fact that Hunt had been promised executive clemency. He said that he had discussed this matter with [John] Ehrlichman and, contrary to instructions that Ehrlichman had given [Charles] Colson not to talk to the President about it, that Colson had also discussed it with him later...
HALDEMAN gave his account in testimony to the Ervin committee last July 30. Said Haldeman: "He [Dean] indicated concern about two problems, money and clemency. He said that Colson had said something to Hunt about clemency . . . The President confirmed that he could not offer clemency, and Dean agreed . . . He also reported on a current Hunt blackmail threat. He said Hunt was demanding $120,000 or else he would tell about the seamy things he had done for Ehrlichman. The President pursued this in considerable detail, obviously trying to smoke out what was really going on . . . He asked how much money...