Word: concealer
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...court of public opinion, he stood accused of participating in or at least knowing of a massive conspiracy to conceal White House involvement in the political espionage, burglaries, wiretapping, campaign disruption and illegal use of donated funds that are all part of the Watergate squalor...
...Democrats and 42% of the Independents believed Nixon knew of the bugging in advance, while only 20% of the Republicans thought so. The opposition was even more willing to accuse Nixon of covering up; 68% of Democrats and 62% of Independents believed that he was aware of efforts to conceal White House involvement; 37% of Republicans felt he knew about such activities...
...living rooms of America. Figuratively, the testimony represented at least half a dozen sticks of dynamite that could blow the scandal skyhigh. The fuses were lit, and the first reached flash point as Convicted Wiretapper James W. McCord Jr. directly accused Richard Nixon of participating in attempts to conceal the involvement of his closest political associates in the sordid and still-spreading affair...
Even as McCord was trying to forge new links between Nixon and the conspiracy to conceal the scandal, new revelations made it increasingly difficult to believe that the President could have remained totally unaware of the cover-up attempts. They were so pervasive, involving the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department, that if he did not know about them, he was guilty of neglect bordering on incompetence-an accusation few have ever leveled at the superbly organized Chief Executive...
...John W. Dean III, the President's counsel who was abruptly fired by Nixon on April 30, contends that the President asked him to sign a resignation and a confession that he, Dean, alone had tried to conceal the White House involvement in Watergate. Dean refused. Moreover, he insists that he never gave Nixon a report that cleared all of his aides of involvement. That would make an outright lie of Nixon's press-conference statement of last Aug. 29 that Dean's investigation had produced such a conclusion-unless someone above Dean had misled the President...