Word: coverups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Based on the evidence in the transcripts, many legal experts, including former prosecutors, already see potential charges against Citizen Nixon of obstruction of justice, subornation of perjury, conspiracy, and perhaps misprision of a felony and bribery. Beyond crimes relating to the Watergate coverup, the President must also consider that criminal allegations could result from some or all of the ongoing investigations into his tax declarations, the ITT affair, the milk fund, the purported sale of ambassadorships, and the Ellsberg psychiatrist breakin. Moreover, there are the lesser specters of disbarment proceedings, endless appearances as a witness in the trials of others...
Nixon himself is concerned?and possibly scared ?about another matter. "He has heard rumors that the New York Times has information linking him directly to the coverup...
Toward the end of the 44-minute session, Petersen decides to get something bothering him off his chest. Citing a personal example, he brings up the growing public doubt that the President is telling all that he knows about the Watergate coverup...
Nixon thus knows that before March 21 at least one White House man is involved in the coverup...
...effect, look like a coverup...