Word: coverup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shocked and disturbed to find my photograph on page 23 of your May 14 issue along with others alleged to be involved in the Watergate affair and its alleged subsequent coverup. As private trial counsel to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President and other related committees since June 22, 1972, I have vigorously defended my clients in civil litigation in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and shall continue to do so. The words placed under my photograph suggest that I am guilty of illegal acts and unethical conduct, and I again state...
...election committee, has agreed to plead guilty and turn Government witness. Since he has admitted sitting in on the meetings in Attorney General John Mitchell's office at which the Watergate spying plans were first discussed, he is believed to have great knowledge of the burglary and the coverup...
Though Nixon had assured the nation as recently as April 30 that there had been no limitations on the inquiry, he now conceded there had been a limitation ? imposed by himself, but only for security reasons. If that led to a Wa tergate coverup, the President argued, it probably happened because subordinates misunderstood him or went be yond his instructions...
...technique was similar?and two of the Watergate burglars were Hunt and Liddy. The plumbers' boss, Ehrlichman, has been named by various federal investigators as being part of the Watergate coverup...
This was, even if unintentional, part of the coverup. Any pursuit of the individuals who had directed or financed the Watergate burglars would require a full investigation of Hunt and Liddy ?and thus would run right into Nixon's admonition against getting into "national security...