Word: coverups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hours of calm and gentlemanly debate over one of the most fundamental constitutional controversies in U.S. history. Cox, though nominally an employee of Nixon's Administration, had subpoenaed nine of the President's secret tape recordings, all containing presidential conversations concerning the Watergate break-in and coverup. Wright was there to defend the President's refusal to surrender them. Both sides had thoroughly covered the legal ground in written briefs -totaling 50 pages by Wright, 68 by Cox-delivered to the court during the two weeks before the hearing. Still, the oral arguments last week gave...
...announced that if the 1972 elections were to be repeated today, Senator George McGovern (who received only 38% of the popular vote) would win with 51%. The only comfort the polls held for the President was the curious paradox that, while 73% suspected him of complicity in the Watergate coverup, only 26% wanted him removed from office...
...presidency." On his own role in Watergate, he reasserted his innocence. "In all the millions of words of testimony [before the Ervin committee], there is not the slightest suggestion that I had any knowledge of the planning for the Watergate break-in." As for any knowledge of the coverup, said Nixon, his innocence had been challenged by "only one of the 35 witnesses"-John Dean-"who offered no evidence beyond his own impres sions, and whose testimony has been contradicted by every other witness in a position to know the facts." Having repeated his denials, the President added practically...
...comments to Dean in September 1972 that led the White House counsel to believe the President knew all about the coverup...
There is more to be heard. After a month-long recess Senator Sam Ervin's Select Committee still expects to question seven further witnesses about the Watergate burglary and the subsequent coverup. Also missing from the record is the potentially (but not necessarily) decisive evidence from the tapes of conversations secretly recorded by the President. Nixon's latest account of the affair, presumably to be given this week, could alter the weight of evidence already before the committee...