Word: coverup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House Judiciary Committee released more than 4,000 pages of evidence that it has compiled so far on the Watergate break-in and coverup. There was fresh and (for the President) damning new detail. The bulk of evidence indicated that Nixon was deeply involved in the cover-up-and even earlier than some of his critics had previously assumed...
...President in a better light than did the committee's corrected documents. To Nixon's critics on Capitol Hill, the many omissions and apparent misstatements in the White House version seemed nothing less than a clumsy effort to doctor the evidence, to cover up the original coverup. These revelations damaged the President and added impetus to the impeachment drive...
...absence of journalistic pressure. Certainly the initial prosecution, resulting in the indictment of only the five burglars plus E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, was limited to the point of farce. The tape transcripts show that the White House hoped these indictments would defuse any accusations of a coverup. Now a total of 18 important participants in the scandals have either pleaded guilty or been convicted by juries. Three of these men are now being tried on additional charges while seven others who maintain their innocence must still face verdicts...
...press did during the initial phase of Watergate, in addition to giving snapshots of truth to its audience, was serve in effect as a surrogate public agency, filling a void created by official misfeasance and nonfeasance. The continuing press coverage helped create a momentum that eventually overwhelmed the coverup...
...typical day, the committee plowed through three 250-page notebooks. There were 14 books dealing with the Watergate break-in and coverup, three for the ITT scandal (presented entirely by Jenner), three for the milk-fund case and 16 for other matters like campaign dirty tricks and Nixon's taxes. Occasionally members donned earphones to listen to one of the 19 presidential tapes obtained...