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...oilfield-leasing scandal of 50 years ago.* They stand charged with being so eager to secure campaign contributions for the reelection of President Nixon that they used their great influence to help a financier, Robert L. Vesco, in his deep troubles with the Government. Then they tried repeatedly to conceal the fact that Vesco had contributed $200,000 in cash to the Nixon re-election committee (see box page...
While it is not yet clear how many Nixon officials knew about the Watergate plans ahead of time, there is no doubt that after the burglars were arrested, a broad conspiracy was quickly created to conceal the extent of the involvement of the White House and the Nixon committee. The New York Times reported last week that federal investigators have discovered that the principal cover-up conspirators were Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean, Mitchell, Magruder and LaRue. Each one, the investigators contend, has lied to either the prosecutors, to federal investigators, or to other White House officials...
...lies were designed, first, to conceal just how much money was paid to Wiretapper Liddy in advance of the Watergate bugging, as well as to hide the real purpose of the payments, and second, to cover up the fact that the arrested men were receiving monthly payments of between $1,000 and $3,000 each to keep quiet about the involvement of anyone else. According to the newspaper account, the former Nixon committee treasurer, Hugh W. Sloan Jr., tried to warn the President, but was cut off by Ehrlichman...
Nixon said he received repeated assurances from his aides that no one in his Administration had been involved. He contended that it was not until March that he began to suspect "that there had been an effort to conceal the facts both from the public?from you?and from me." Now, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to ensure that the guilty are brought to justice. We must maintain the integrity of the White House. There can be no whitewash at the White House." Nixon urged both parties to join in seeking "a new set of standards...
Most of the people apparently have remained unconvinced by his TV speech. A quick Gallup poll disclosed that 50% of his audience believed that Nixon was personally a party to the attempts to conceal White House involvement in the Watergate wiretapping conspiracy. Forty percent also believed he knew about the bugging all along. On the other hand, in a rather disturbing display of cynicism about Government, 58% said the Nixon Administration had done no worse than previous postwar Administrations...