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...transcripts of the Watergate tapes tell it, when John Dean warned Richard Nixon against getting involved in a coverup, the President answered: "No-it is wrong, that's for sure." But just what inflection was in Nixon's voice when he made this remark, or the many other similarly intriguing but ambiguous bits of dialogue quoted in the transcripts? The public will have to wait to find out. Last week the Supreme Court refused to turn over the 22 hours of Nixon tapes that were played at the Watergate cover-up trial to Warner Communications, the broadcasting networks...
...Sheng, onetime internal security boss. The minigang members have also been blasted by the Teng-controlled People's Daily, which has called them "hyenas, wolfish animals." The four, along with other backers of Mme. Mao, have also been attacked as the "wind faction," "slip-away faction" and "coverup faction." Meaning: they have bent with the wind, crept away from difficulties and concealed their crimes...
...been my privilege to know," White House Chief of Staff H.R. (Bob) Haldeman and Domestic Adviser John Ehrlichman. The two, who were good friends in Washington and had known each other since student days at U.C.L.A., are both now serving prison terms for their part in the Watergate coverup. Since Haldeman's new book, The Ends of Power, blames Nixon for both launching and covering up Watergate, TIME asked Ehrlichman, himself the author of the highly successful roman a clef, The Company, to review Haldeman's effort. Ehrlichman's critique...
Haldeman does admit some wrongs. The coverup, he concludes, was "morally and legally the wrong thing to do-so it should have failed." But then he suggests that the problem actually was tactical-"Too many people knew too much"-and that the one man who knew the most (Richard Nixon) had not told his aides enough...
...plan can be developed to handle almost any problem," Haldeman states, and if Nixon had only provided "a key part of the puzzle ... most of us would have been willing to sacrifice ourselves, if necessary, to save the presidency that we believed in." The coverup, in short, was not such an evil to Bob Haldeman that he would refuse to try it again if he thought he could make it work. Says he: "There is absolutely no doubt in my mind today that if I were back at the starting point, faced with the decision of whether to join...