Word: coverup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coverup, letting the chips?and men?fall where they might...
...most part, however, Nixon came across in the transcripts as a coarse and cynical President, chiefly bent on manipulating associates and plotting strategies to keep himself isolated and insulated from Watergate. The transcripts showed a President creating an environment of deceit and dishonesty, of evasion and coverup. In public, Nixon was pictured as detached, too busy with affairs of state to probe Watergate. In private, the transcripts showed that he wanted to know every detail of the scandal's effect on the press and public. Stratagems were devised; "scenarios" were roughed out and rehearsed. Answers were shaped for questions sure...
...times, Nixon sounded in the transcripts like a man speaking for the taped record, rather than spontaneously. During a discussion on April 14, 1973, with Haldeman and Ehrlichman, Nixon said of the Watergate coverup: "Well, I knew it. I knew it. I must say, though, I didn't know it, but I must have assumed it though." On April 16, 1973, in the middle of a period in which Nixon and his top aides were concocting "scenarios" to isolate the President from Watergate, he told Dean: "John, tell the truth. That is the thing I've told everybody around here...
When did the President learn of the coverup? John Dean testified to the Senate Watergate committee that he inferred that Nixon was "fully aware" of the effort to hide White House staff involvement in the Watergate break-in as early as Sept. 15, 1972. Nixon and St. Clair argue that the President learned of the cover-up only on March 21, 1973, when Dean told him. They point out that Dean, after all, himself requested the meeting to lay out for the President all the facts of the coverup. They cite that in the process of doing so. Dean said...
...records, personal memorandums and hotel logs. Racing against the May 28 deadline that will bring the committee's investigation to a close, they had produced by last week an outline of a cover-up of the $100,000 transaction that mirrored on a smaller scale the whole Watergate coverup...