Word: coverup
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...Washington in his 1954 Convair turboprop, he received a call from White House Chief of Staff General Alexander Haig. For the first time, Ford learned that tapes soon to be delivered to Judge John J. Sirica contained statements by Nixon that directly implicated the President in the Watergate coverup. At that moment, Gerald Ford must have become aware that his accession to the presidency had suddenly become nearly certain. Aboard the Convair, he drafted a statement to the effect that "the public interset is no longer served" by his continuing to speak out on impeachment...
With those words, Nixon authorized the coverup, a criminal obstruction of justice that was eventually to destroy his presidency. The transcripts show that Nixon ordered Haldeman to call in CIA Director Richard Helms and Deputy CIA Director Vernon Walters and get them to tell Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray "to lay off' his investigation of the Watergate burglary money. Nixon suggested that Haldeman could claim that "the President believes" that such an investigation would "open the whole Bay of Pigs thing up again" (as a CIA agent, Hunt had helped organize the disastrous 1961 invasion of Cuba...
...Office Building, listening to the tapes that the Supreme Court directed him to turn over to Judge Sirica. The judge will decide which parts of the tapes may be used in the trial, scheduled to begin Sept. 9, of six former Nixon aides charged with participating in the Watergate coverup. After listening to each tape, Nixon turned it over to two lawyers, J. Fred Buzhardt and St. Clair, who prepared copies for the White House of the reels containing the subpoenaed conversations to be sent to Sirica. Twenty of the tapes were delivered to the judge on Tuesday and another...
Much of the painful pressure on Chairman Peter Rodino's committee had eased after it had irrevocably cast the die of impeachment on July 27 by approving Article I, which charged Nixon with obstruction of justice in the Watergate coverup. Yet there were spirited exchanges last week as the committee's deliberations resumed. The bipartisanship reached its peak as seven Republicans joined all 21 Democrats to approve Article II, which accused Nixon of abusing the powers of his office and failing to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. Illinois Republican Robert McClory supported the article, adding...
...debate. Demonstrating a willingness to impeach on at least one mainstream article were Illinois' Robert McClory, Railsback, Fish, Butler and Cohen. In a speech that was at first tantalizingly noncommittal, Froehlich hinted that he might go along with an article on the obstruction of justice in the Watergate coverup...