Word: coverups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even stiffer terms, but with the promise that he would review the penalties if they spoke up, Liddy remained mum and received an additional sentence for contempt of court. McCord took the suggestion to heart, and he wrote Sirica, charging that higher authorities had been involved in a coverup. With that, the whole attempt at concealment began to collapse...
Beyond his attempts to implicate the President in the coverup, the assured and incisive McCord repeatedly asserted that former Attorney General John Mitchell had helped plan, approve and supervise a threefold campaign of political intrigue: electronic bugging, clandestine photography and political espionage. Again McCord's information came from others, mainly Hunt and Liddy, and thus was hearsay...
...that Jeb Magruder had had advance knowledge of the illegal operation. He has admitted lying to the grand jury in denying that he knew in advance about the Watergate bugging and helped to plan it, but he has also claimed that Mitchell asked him to perjure himself in the coverup...
Fall Guy. If Nixon had knowledge of the coverup, this probably could be verified by John Mitchell, whose career has been shattered by his work for the President. If faced with the possibility of a jail term, Mitchell could conceivably lose interest in protecting Nixon...
...know most about Nixon's possible involvement are Ehrlichman and Haldeman, the two aides whom the President praised lavishly even as he told them that they must resign. They undoubtedly will deny that Nixon knew anything about any coverup, but how they will explain many of their own activities is a mystery...