Word: coverups
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...failure of Nixon to testify because of his poor health and Sirica's refusal to let the trial await Nixon's recovery. Still another basis for appeal will be Sirica's insistence on presiding over the trial after he was so closely involved in breaking the coverup...
...former Nixon aides and agents have pleaded guilty or been convicted in the scandals known collectively as Watergate. The criminal acts involve the break-ins and bugging at Democratic national headquarters in Washington, the subsequent coverup, various acts of sabotage against the Democrats in the 1972 presidential campaign, secret payments of hush money to the Watergate burglars, the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, Richard Nixon's federal tax return claims and perjury in connection with the investigation into a possible connection between the settlement of antitrust suits against the International Telephone & Telegraph...
JOHN MITCHELL. There was no dispute that Mitchell had sat through three meetings, two of them as Attorney General, at which bugging plans were discussed. Thus he had a motive to join the coverup. But did he approve the eavesdropping at Democratic National Committee headquarters during the third meeting? Did he suggest that some of the files on the bungled operation be burned? Did he lie to the grand jury? Mitchell admitted approving one payment to the original Watergate burglary defendants, but did he know that its purpose was to silence them? The Government's evidence for affirmative answers...
...case for the defense was completed earlier in the week by testimony from Defendants Robert C. Mardian, 51, and Kenneth W. Parkinson, 47. Both emphatically denied that as attorneys for the Committee for the Re-Election of the President in 1972, they had participated in the coverup. Compared with the other three accused, John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, Mardian and Parkinson have been relatively minor figures in the case, though Neal described them as "a necessary part of the orchestration...
...five defendants to fail to testify in their own defense. Yet Ehrlichman discovered last week, as had the hapless John Mitchell and H.R. Haldeman before him, that exposure to the prosecution's cross-examination was equally hazardous. Unlike Mitchell, who stubbornly denied his own participation in the coverup, and Haldeman, who could not seem to recall that there ever was such a conspiracy, Ehrlichman's strategy, in effect, was to contend that he had been "deceived" by former President Nixon into taking part, and had no criminal intent...