Word: coverup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mitchell: Because of the consequences that obviously flow from it . . . If he were to make the decision, there would be no alternative. He would have a choice of being involved in what you all referred to as a coverup, or he would be involved in the disclosures which would affect his reelection...
...Most of them were hired by and are ultimately responsible to Chief Counsel Dash, a criminal lawyer turned professor who was picked by Ervin to be chief counsel. Early on, Dash divided the committee's franchise into three main areas of investigation: the Watergate break-in and its coverup, the other dirty campaign tricks of 1972 and illegal campaign funding. Accordingly, he set up three sections, each with a top lawyer in charge...
While some of the key witnesses yet to appear before the Senate Watergate committee may well back John Mitchell's story that President Nixon was long unaware of his aides' involvement in the breakin, they are expected to implicate each other as well as Mitchell in the coverup. These witnesses include Herbert W. Kalmbach, H.R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Gordon Strachan. Their testimony would leave the President with few wholly untarnished defenders in a position to know what the President might have known...
...Prestige. Many feel that a resignation or impeachment would irreparably damage U.S. interests in the world. Says Kurt Ogg, a Middlesex, N.J., accountant: "I'm sure he knew about the coverup. But resignation or forcing him out would take away from U.S. prestige abroad." He and many others cited Nixon's achievements in ending the war and improving relations with China and Russia...
...Democratic organization, Domhoff's radicals are only another interest group calling for concessions. They bear partial responsibility for party decisions, and are open to co-optation by party liberals. It was a variation on Domhoff's brand of party loyalty that made possible the Watergate break-in and coverup. Dedication to any organization whose basic aim is the expansion of its own power can only lead to Nixonesque immorality. It is doubtful that a radical's convictions could survive a conventional climb to the Presidency unadulterated...