Word: coverup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have cast Richard Nixon as one of the major Presidents of the 20th century, in a rank just after Franklin Roosevelt, on a level with Truman, Wilson, Eisenhower, Kennedy." Six days after White left the President, James McCord's letter to Judge John Sirica blew open the Watergate coverup. In evident distress, White writes: "I was to be brought down from Olympus to consider, with the President and millions of other Americans, the housekeeping of power-and its abuse...
...only one President has ever been impeached (without being convicted)-a nation that has increasingly come to rely on and even revere the presidency. At the same time, according to Gallup, three out of four Americans now believe Nixon had some part in the Watergate break-in or the coverup...
SEPT. 15, 1972. This is the earliest date on which, Dean contends, the President made it clear to him that he was aware of the coverup. He did so, Dean claims, by congratulating him on helping to confine the grand jury indictments to the level of G. Gordon Liddy, the former counsel to the Nixon re-election finance committee. Testified Dean: "The President told me I had done a good job and he appreciated how difficult a task it had been and the President was pleased that the case had stopped with Liddy." Dean claimed that Nixon also said, "That...
...courtliness and mirth, approaches his investigation with a relentless seriousness. He told TIME'S Neil MacNeil last week: "As. an American who loves his country and venerates the institution of the presidency, I indulge the presumption that the President has no connection with the Watergate affair or its coverup. Candor compels me to say that the President is making it very difficult to entertain this presumption if he withholds from the committee the records and the tapes which I believe contain information which is relevant to establish the truth of the Watergate affair...
Strachan declared to the committee that he would disclose further information when cross-examined that would be "politically embarrassing to me and the Administration." But he stopped short of implicating Haldeman in either the Watergate break-in or coverup, and is likely to be a target of sharp inter rogation on this and other subjects this week. But the questioning will probably be brief, since committee members are anxious to get to the big guns next in line: John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman...