Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate Watergate committee finally published its report on the case. To Nixon, the most damaging part was an account of how his closest friend, C.G. ("Bebe") Rebozo, had probably used about $50,000 in campaign contributions-some of them carefully laundered to conceal the source-to pay for diamond earrings for the President's wife and other personal luxuries...
...more startling disclosures is that Nixon foresaw a need to conceal information about the Watergate affair just 13 days after the June 17 breakin. At a meeting with Haldeman and Mitchell, which was called to discuss Mitchell's resignation as Nixon's campaign director, this dialogue took place...
Ehrlichman's defense received some help from high places. In response to written interrogatories, President Nixon stated that he had urged the plumbers' operations to be kept secret. He thus implied that Ehrlichman was acting on presidential orders when he tried to conceal the break-in and was not just maneuvering to camouflage his own role...
...survival. But at home, the impeachment process pushed on, producing revelations that in a less sensation-surfeited time would probably have stolen the nation's attention from the traveling presidential party. The new evidence solidly supported the already strong case that Nixon had engaged in a conspiracy to conceal his active role in the Watergate coverup...
Ostensibly, this first Watergate case to reach the Supreme Court deals only with procuring evidence in the criminal trial of seven former Nixon agents charged with conspiring to conceal the origins of the Watergate burglary. But even the White House brief conceded that "intrinsically related matters" are involved in the impeachment inquiry...