Word: coverups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rather than impeach Nixon, if it turns out that he lied about knowledge of the Watergate coverup, I propose that Congress or at least the Senate, pass a resolution censuring him for his conduct in that one matter. Neither impeachment nor resignation is desirable, yet such a resolution would express the country's indignation. With that done. Nixon could remain in office, chastened but not ruined...
...sordid bit, that continued to happen last week. Witnesses before the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities added pungent details about the pressures to help smother the scandal. Depositions given by John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman dug more deeply into the planning of Watergate and the coverup. White House memos described efforts to set up an illegal security apparatus in 1970. CIA memos under mined the President's Watergate defense by showing that politics, far more than national security, motivated the White House attempt to sidetrack the investigation. As the scandal has unfolded, the Nixon team has disintegrated...
...long association with the President and was as desirous as anyone of protecting him. I did not believe that a letter from the agency asking the FBI to lay off this investigation on the spurious ground that it would uncover covert operations would serve the President." A coverup, in short, was objected to not in principle but on grounds that it would not work...
...were stopped." Stutz claims that the investigation was called off by San Diego's U.S. Attorney Harry Steward, who had publicly stated that he owed his position to Smith's backing. Stutz also says that former Presidential Assistant John Caulfield, a prominent figure in the Watergate coverup, asked him three times to meet secretly and discuss the status of the investigation of Smith prior to Steward's action...
Beneath all the complexities, the basic conflict is clear. Dean holds out the promise of answers to some important questions: 1) How much did President Nixon know about the coverup, and how widely did it really range? 2) What other officials were involved? 3) What other instances of political espionage took place? and 4) What is contained in the secret papers he took from the White House and what light can be shed on their meaning? The prosecutors, on the other hand, doubt that he really has all the answers he promises and is exaggerating to improve his bargaining position...