Word: coverups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minor White House official, TIME has learned, has told Justice Department investigators that even he was part of the extensive coverup. Herbert L. Porter, an assistant in the White House communications office last year, said that he had initially lied to the grand jury about payments to Liddy. According to sources close to the investigation, Porter said that he and Magruder had agreed on a story about having given Liddy
...harder to believe that after the Watergate arrests the President did not have at least a suspicion of the coverup. If he was not suspicious, he knew even less about some of his own aides than the press did. How could so many of his loyal men lie to him so long? Why did Nixon wait until March to start a tough investigation of his own? And if Dean is right, of course, Nixon knew all about the concealment...
...breakfast in another part of Washington still another former Cabinet officer showed the same doubts. If evidence surfaced linking the President to the bugging or the coverup, he said, he did not want to hear about it or think about...
Another alleged participant in the coverup. Attended at least one meeting with Mitchell, Dean, Magruder and Liddy at which Watergate wiretapping plans were discussed. Directed, with Robert Mardian, the destruction of records at the re-election committee offices that could have connected the committee with Watergate. Received $350,000 from Haldeman reportedly to be used to pay off the arrested wiretappers...
Under investigation for coverup. Was courier of some $350,000 in cash from Haldeman to LaRue; the money reportedly was used to buy the silence of the arrested wiretappers. Assisted in the hiring of Political Saboteur Donald Segretti. Was the White House contact for a number of agents provocateurs working around the country helping to direct the disruption of Democratic campaigns...