Word: coverups
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...least one of the Watergate defendants has already indicated that he wants Nixon to testify as a defense witness. Before Ford's pardon, Ehrlichman subpoenaed Nixon to testify, hoping apparently that Nixon would support his claim that he was led into thinking that national-security considerations justified the coverup...
Evidence surfaced that the U.S. attorney learned of the perjury several days before an appeal of the case went to the Supreme Court, but did not inform the justices of it. Dershowitz claimed the prosecution's omission was made intentionally as part of a "coverup." The judge, who had previously worked in the U.S. attorney's office, told Dershowitz he might institute the disciplinary proceedings if the "deadly serious charge" was not proved...
...last-ditch defenders in the U.S. would have been embarrassed to offer. The commentators referred several times to the "socalled Watergate affair" without once explaining it or even suggesting that Nixon had done anything to warrant removal from office. Neither Zamyatin nor Zorin ever mentioned the Watergate breakin, the coverup, the indictments of so many Nixon aides, the Nixon income tax imbroglio, the incriminating tapes, the articles of impeachment, or the falsehoods that the former President admitted in his fatal Aug. 5 statement...
...does the Kremlin bother with what amounts to its own fantastic Watergate coverup? Aside from protecting Brezhnev, the outrageous distortions of what really happened to Nixon are obviously tailored to fit the official conspiratorial view of the U.S. system. Says one Western diplomat in Moscow: "It jibes with what are probably their basic beliefs about how America operates. It also fits the deep-rooted Slavic feeling about plots." Adds a Scandinavian official posted in the Soviet capital: "No one wants to raise the question of popular pressure bringing down a government that lies. Imagine what that could mean here...
...newspapers that had remained sympathetic to Rich ard Nixon-or at least open-minded about his guilt or innocence-were under growing pressure to change their positions. Last Wednesday morning the dam broke. In the aftermath of Nixon's latest disclosures about his involvement in the Watergate coverup, a number of major newspapers that had been on the fence called for Nixon's resignation or impeachment...