Word: coverup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clearly, without some kind of direct and detailed Nixon reply, the committee?and the country?would have difficulty believing that the President was not an active and fully aware participant in the Watergate coverup, as Dean charged. In fact, how and when the President would reply became a decisive factor in his hopes for political survival. Chairman Sam Ervin and other committee members had already begun to ask for his appearance...
...worry about. Thus Dean continued to help keep the facts of White House involvement under wraps. Nixon told him he "had every right" to sit in on FBI interviews with White House personnel on Watergate and read all FBI reports on the affair-actions actually undertaken to aid the coverup...
...better than Nixon. I've told my husband repeatedly that I may not be here many years, but Marty will be, and his grandchildren." For good measure, she telephoned NBC and spoke to Newsman Peter Hackes, insisting yet again that Nixon "knew all about" the Watergate coverup. It all had a familiar and increasingly sad ring...
...Watergate coverup, the illegal wiretapping, the breaking and entering by White House operatives-all have been explained on the basis of this higher good...
...imposing stiff restrictions on prosecutors, witnesses and other potential leakers. If, over Watergate, there has been too much disclosure, that is partly because the implicated men and their lawyers are struggling through a case of unprecedented nature, partly because prosecutors now may want to avoid any appearance of a coverup. Moreover, the First Amendment has made the U.S. press as uncontrollable as it is robust. "The hearings may not make Cox's job any easier," says Georgetown University Law Center Dean Adrian Fisher, "but it is a situation he can live with...