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...Dean, the scapegoats so as to save himself. Even many of the transcripts released by the White House last April in a televised profession of belated candor were revealed by the playing of the tapes to have been edited to omit the most damaging statements and thus continue the coverup...
...Peers investigation implicated more than 30 men in the My Lai massacre and its coverup. Many were never even charged. Twelve had the charges against them dismissed and three were acquitted after being court-martialed. Only Galley served time...
Feiffer: Peoples' reactions to my plays are maybe a little stronger. In 1970, for example, when the "White House Murder Case" was being produced, the audience loved it up until Nixon invaded Cambodia. The play is about a Watergate mentality. They're trying to devise a coverup of a coverup in Brazil. I originally wrote it to show the sterility of government and its coldness. But after Cambodia the satire became real. And they stopped coming. But it can be discomfiting and funny at the same time--you know, "This isn't funny" funny...
John Dean may have helped expose the Watergate coverup, bul this past summer his Beverly Hills neighbors fell a bil exposed as well. Charging that a second-story room above Dean's garage violated local height restrictions, a group of local residents demanded that it be removed. A case of Peeping John? "Of course not," protests Novelist Gwen Davis, who used lo skinnydip in her nearby pool. "Still, Ihe federal marshals slayed up there," adds Davis, who has since moved. Last week in a Santa Monica court the matter was settled peacefully when the builders of Dean...
...Government's next witness, Jeb Stuart Magruder, former deputy director of the Nixon re-election committee, similarly admitted past perjury. Looking surprisingly fit and fresh for a man serving a prison term of at least ten months for his part in the burglary and coverup, Magruder provided some new details damaging to the defense. In response to the quizzing of Assistant Prosecutor Jill Wine Volner, he repeated his insistence that Mitchell had "reluctantly" approved the bugging of then Democratic National Chairman Larry O'Brien's office. He testified too that he had kept Defendant H.R. Haldeman...