Word: coverups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a clearer idea of the directions that the inquiry will take. This new focus has followed the committee's receipt of a briefcase containing findings of fact and supporting evidence compiled by the Watergate grand jury that indicted seven former Nixon agents for conspiracy in the coverup...
...grand jury had enough information to issue indictments in the coverup. But the Jaworski staff is still seeking tapes and memos about a variety of White House activities, including Nixon's relations with large campaign contributors, notably the milk producers and persons seeking ambassadorial posts. The prosecutors also want copies of Nixon's daily news summaries, on which he is known to have written instructions on Watergate developments, and files known to have been kept by Ehrlichman on the work of the President's secret group of investigators, called the plumbers...
...report is unclear. When Dean decided not to write such a paper but began dealing secretly with the Justice Department prosecutors instead, Nixon assigned Ehrlichman on March 30 to investigate Dean's charges. Since Dean had told Nixon that Ehrlichman was one of the participants in the coverup, he was a curious choice for investigator...
Last January, Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott rushed out of the White House and made headlines with the announcement that he had seen documents that would prove Nixon innocent of charges that the President knew about the Watergate coverup. But those documents remain locked in White House vaults...
...been repeated attempts to suppress evidence, minimize the case's importance, deflect guilt and hide behind the shibboleth of national security. These factors at first inhibited the press. Now the urge is to print everything obtainable in the belief that self-censorship would be itself a kind of coverup. In this atmosphere, there will doubtless be some excesses. Though Kraft is right in warning against abuses, the entire history of the Watergate mess is an argument for the fullest possible disclosure...