Word: coverup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Dean may have helped expose the Watergate coverup, bul this past summer his Beverly Hills neighbors fell a bil exposed as well. Charging that a second-story room above Dean's garage violated local height restrictions, a group of local residents demanded that it be removed. A case of Peeping John? "Of course not," protests Novelist Gwen Davis, who used lo skinnydip in her nearby pool. "Still, Ihe federal marshals slayed up there," adds Davis, who has since moved. Last week in a Santa Monica court the matter was settled peacefully when the builders of Dean...
...main impact of Hunt's revised testimony was to incriminate further former Attorney General John Mitchell in the coverup. Hunt claimed for the first time that Liddy, who has resisted all pressure to tell his own story, had told Hunt that "the big man"-meaning Mitchell-"said O.K., and the word is go" to bug Democratic national headquarters. Hunt also conceded that he had received secret payments after his arrest, not merely to meet legal fees but so "that I would not reveal my knowledge of the Watergate affair." Also contradicting his previous testimony, he admitted that...
...Government's next witness, Jeb Stuart Magruder, former deputy director of the Nixon re-election committee, similarly admitted past perjury. Looking surprisingly fit and fresh for a man serving a prison term of at least ten months for his part in the burglary and coverup, Magruder provided some new details damaging to the defense. In response to the quizzing of Assistant Prosecutor Jill Wine Volner, he repeated his insistence that Mitchell had "reluctantly" approved the bugging of then Democratic National Chairman Larry O'Brien's office. He testified too that he had kept Defendant H.R. Haldeman...
Pure As Snow. In opening statements, attorneys for Ehrlichman, Mardian and Parkinson made no attempt to deny that there had been a high-level White House coverup. Instead, they argued variously that their clients had been duped by those above them or that their Watergate involvement was insignificant. David Bress, the attorney for Mardian, claimed that Mitchell, 61, had developed "a sort of father-and-son relationship with Mardian," who is 51. Thus Mardian, former head of the Justice Department's Internal Security Division, was misled by Mitchell. "Mardian was as pure as a driven snow," Bress argued...
...final coverup...