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...fresh warning that for a politician, a coverup, or even the appearance of one, can prove more fatal than the original problem. Buried, bad news festers; promptly addressed, it may perhaps be cauterized and survived...
Another brief calm ensued until two weeks ago, when Bessell, hounded by British reporters at his home in California, undermined most of the Thorpe defense. He admitted that his blackmail tale had been a "coverup ... to prevent Scott from standing up in court and making statements about Jeremy. The whole idea was to make Scott shut his mouth...
...involved government officials including Secretary Kissinger are forced to testify, the truth will not be established. The Church Committee should be forced to subpoena these documents and witnesses, and to take the issue to the courts, if necessary to secure them. Its current report is essentially a coverup, and the committee should not be allowed to expire until it has produced the information for which it was established...
Ehrlichman is dogged by legal problems and debts. He is appealing sentences, which could run up to eight years, for perjury, for authorizing the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, for his role in the Watergate coverup; he faces half a dozen civil cases over the denial of civil rights of individuals. He has been disbarred. He owes his lawyers about $350,000. Still, he appeared tanned and relaxed last week and much like the John Ehrlichman of old. He refused to talk about the details of the Watergate case, said he has not seen...
Shrewd Cookie. This is high-if unintentional-comedy, and so is Mo's account of her newlywed days, with her methodical husband simultaneously tending her and the unraveling Watergate coverup. Dean does not tell her why he is called back to Washington during two attempts at a honeymoon, and Mo does not ask: "It was just one of the many elements of his work for the President, and neither of us wanted to talk all night about what he had been doing all day." Besides, the role of dutiful wife requires pride in her young take-charger: "I could...