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...Gordon Liddy, a former FBI agent, and E. Howard Hunt Jr., who had worked for the CIA and had written dozens of mystery novels. The hiring of Liddy had been suggested by Egil Krogh, Deputy Assistant for Domestic Affairs, that of Hunt by Presidential Special Counsel Charles W. Colson. Liddy and Hunt became known in the White House as "the plumbers," because they were hired to plug leaks. They later became an integral part of the Watergate crew. This team promptly began tapping telephones, including those of New York Times reporters...
...makes good political sense. There is no question that Connally would like to be President, but he chooses not to be too forward about it. He does not want to offend Republican regulars by seeming the brash interloper. He rejected the advice of former White House Special Counsel Charles Colson, who suggested that Connally go on national television and urge other Democrats to follow him into the G.O.P. "It would be presumptuous," said the former pillar of Texas Democracy, "to assume that the Republican Party has been breathlessly awaiting my entry to find out what they were going...
...Charles Colson, a former special counsel to the President, seems the most aggressively determined of all to demonstrate that he had no connection with Watergate; his attorney, David Shapiro, 44, is also his law partner in a rapidly growing new firm whose promising future could be severely compromised. In some ways, Shapiro has almost as much to lose as Colson. Thus the Colson defense tactics have been designed to ward off even the implication of involvement, using a carefully prepared battle plan including a lie-detector test to bolster Colson's claim of innocence, willing cooperation with investigators...
Hunt was reportedly building a dossier under the supervision of former White House aide Charles W. Colson to embarass Senator Edward M. Kennedy '56 (D-Mass.), then considered the leading Democratic presidential candidate by the White House...
What preposterous assumptions. Dullness does not produce competence. Beyond the shattering moral issues in the Watergate case is the revelation that the Haldeman-Ehrlichman-Colson-Dean staff operation was, for the most part, a tragic failure. Legislative achievements were almost zero. Congress and the federal bureaucracy were systematically alienated. Trouble was rarely detected in the early stages-My Lai, Carswell, Cambodia, Watergate. When it arrived full-grown on the President's doorstep, the energies of these men were directed not at solving the problems but at ignoring or minimizing them, which in the end only magnified the difficulties. Building...