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...atmosphere contained an almost alarming quality of self-deception. Last week John Connally resigned as a special adviser to the President. It was well known that he had taken an aggressive line on Watergate and that his advice was not welcome. More embarrassing revelations about secret bombings and covert military activity in Cambodia and Laos continued to spill out. Both the House and Senate have passed bills to curb Nixon's power to impound funds appropriated by Congress. Even such a comparatively trivial sign as Kissinger's postponing his trip to Peking, which had been set for early...
...revelation last week that Nixon had ordered the automatic and covert recording of all of his office talks and most of his telephone conversations since the spring of 1971 cast a startling new light on the astonishing affair. A case against the President that had seemed destined to rest ambiguously on the often credible but thus far wholly uncorroborated testimony of Nixon's fired counsel, John W. Dean III, now might have a clear-cut resolution...
Continued the Walters memo: "Director Helms said he had talked to Gray on the previous day and made plain to him that ... none of his investigations was touching any covert projects of the agency, current or ongoing...
...Walters said his position was that "I had a long association with the President and was as desirous as anyone of protecting him. I did not believe that a letter from the agency asking the FBI to lay off this investigation on the spurious ground that it would uncover covert operations would serve the President." A coverup, in short, was objected to not in principle but on grounds that it would not work...
...Constitution is still capable of guaranteeing both the security of the state and the liberty of the individual. Yale Law School Professor Alexander Bickel believes that it is. "It is flexible enough to answer particular security needs," he says. But he draws a distinction between illegal activities and certain covert security activities that may be acceptable under the Constitution-such as legal wiretapping. "The President cannot decide for himself what is in the interest of national security," Bickel says. "National security does not exist outside the rule of law." In the Ellsberg case, for instance, the Administration could have proposed...