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Clad in blue jeans and toting a brown paper bag filled with his belongings, H.R. Haldeman said farewell to jail last week. Having served 18 months in federal prison in Lompoc, Calif., for his part in the Watergate coverup, Richard Nixon's former chief of staff was paroled in time for Christmas. "This is generally considered a special time of the year to rejoice, and it sure is for me," said Haldeman. Two days later, John Mitchell, the last of the Watergate gang still behind bars, was permitted a five-day Christmas furlough...
...most directors' reputations. Hoover himself was demythologized after his death in 1972 by revelations of the racist, tyrannical and even lawless way in which he managed the bureau. Richard Nixon's appointee, ex-Navy Captain L. Patrick Gray, meekly let himself be used in the Watergate coverup. Clarence Kelley, the tough cop who had headed the Kansas City, Mo., police department, allowed himself to be hobbled by the Hoover clique of high-level bureaucrats at FBI headquarters. Last week former Federal Judge William H. Webster confronted the stiffest test of his ten months as FBI director and apparently...
Other federal investigators insist that there has been no foot-dragging and no coverup. "The investigation is just complicated," says J.A. ("Tony") Canales, the U.S. Attorney for Houston. "You're damn right it is being done in unusual secrecy. I don't want to hurt anybody who is innocent. We are conducting an investigation with the FBI into certain business entities involved in the reselling of oil. I am informed that there were some 60 or 70 such businesses created almost overnight. Not all are under investigation, of course, but the investigation is mushrooming...
...just a lame construction of already published events in such a way as to absolve Nixon of sinister motives and serious criminal intent. He explains his involvement as passive and oddly disinterested, claiming to have known nothing of the planning and little of the extent of the coverup. He quotes his diary to show he was relaxing on Bob Abplanalp's island on a date by which both Bob Haldeman and Charles Colson have testified they had notified him of events. The tone is set for a revision of contemporary history. He admits being aware...
What finally forced Nixon to quit was the hard evidence that only six days after the Watergate burglary, he was already deeply involved in the coverup. This became clear when he was forced to release the White House tape of a meeting that he had with Haldeman on June 23, 1972. The "smoking gun" revelation came out in the fateful summer of 1974, and Nixon writes of the events of Friday, August 2: "I decided instead of resigning on Monday night, I would release the June 23 tape and see the reaction...