Word: coverups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failure of Nixon to testify because of his poor health and Sirica's refusal to let the trial await Nixon's recovery. Still another basis for appeal will be Sirica's insistence on presiding over the trial after he was so closely involved in breaking the coverup...
...former Nixon aides and agents have pleaded guilty or been convicted in the scandals known collectively as Watergate. The criminal acts involve the break-ins and bugging at Democratic national headquarters in Washington, the subsequent coverup, various acts of sabotage against the Democrats in the 1972 presidential campaign, secret payments of hush money to the Watergate burglars, the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, Richard Nixon's federal tax return claims and perjury in connection with the investigation into a possible connection between the settlement of antitrust suits against the International Telephone & Telegraph...
JOHN W. DEAN III, 36, chief White House counsel and a major Watergate prosecution witness. Pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to obstruct justice and to defraud the U.S. in the Watergate coverup; now serving a one-to-four-year prison sentence...
...STUART MAGRUDER, 40, deputy director of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the coverup; now serving a ten-month-to-four-year sentence...
JOHN MITCHELL. There was no dispute that Mitchell had sat through three meetings, two of them as Attorney General, at which bugging plans were discussed. Thus he had a motive to join the coverup. But did he approve the eavesdropping at Democratic National Committee headquarters during the third meeting? Did he suggest that some of the files on the bungled operation be burned? Did he lie to the grand jury? Mitchell admitted approving one payment to the original Watergate burglary defendants, but did he know that its purpose was to silence them? The Government's evidence for affirmative answers...