Word: coverups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case for the defense was completed earlier in the week by testimony from Defendants Robert C. Mardian, 51, and Kenneth W. Parkinson, 47. Both emphatically denied that as attorneys for the Committee for the Re-Election of the President in 1972, they had participated in the coverup. Compared with the other three accused, John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, Mardian and Parkinson have been relatively minor figures in the case, though Neal described them as "a necessary part of the orchestration...
...five defendants to fail to testify in their own defense. Yet Ehrlichman discovered last week, as had the hapless John Mitchell and H.R. Haldeman before him, that exposure to the prosecution's cross-examination was equally hazardous. Unlike Mitchell, who stubbornly denied his own participation in the coverup, and Haldeman, who could not seem to recall that there ever was such a conspiracy, Ehrlichman's strategy, in effect, was to contend that he had been "deceived" by former President Nixon into taking part, and had no criminal intent...
...Dean, the scapegoats so as to save himself. Even many of the transcripts released by the White House last April in a televised profession of belated candor were revealed by the playing of the tapes to have been edited to omit the most damaging statements and thus continue the coverup...
...Peers investigation implicated more than 30 men in the My Lai massacre and its coverup. Many were never even charged. Twelve had the charges against them dismissed and three were acquitted after being court-martialed. Only Galley served time...
Feiffer: Peoples' reactions to my plays are maybe a little stronger. In 1970, for example, when the "White House Murder Case" was being produced, the audience loved it up until Nixon invaded Cambodia. The play is about a Watergate mentality. They're trying to devise a coverup of a coverup in Brazil. I originally wrote it to show the sterility of government and its coldness. But after Cambodia the satire became real. And they stopped coming. But it can be discomfiting and funny at the same time--you know, "This isn't funny" funny...