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President: Segretti, and, and the Watergate ... There's no cover-up in this?to this point, period?not one talk of coverup...
...Haldeman, in fact, tried later to explain the conversation to a grand jury in such a way that the President would be cleared of participation in the coverup. For that explanation, Haldeman was indicted for perjury...
Also on April 14 Ehrlichman, at Nixon's request, taped a conversation with Mitchell. The apparent purpose: to get Mitchell to admit that he had approved the Watergate break-in and engineered the original coverup, and thus take the heat off the White House. Mitchell took a commercial flight to Washington that afternoon. Ehrlichman quickly ushered him into his office without giving him a chance to see the President. Also, Ehrlichman pulled a chair close to his desk so that Mitchell would be close to the hidden microphone...
...Judiciary Committee evidence shed a bit of light on the origins of Watergate by recounting some of the practices, power relationships and internal rivalries in the Nixon political camp during the months before the break-in and coverup. What is clear is that the White House kept the tightest control over even the smallest details of President Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign...
...have been sharply limited. For all his surface composure he may soon be persuaded that he can no longer hang tough and stonewall. He still faces two more trials: one in California for perjury in connection with the Ellsberg case, one in Washington for his role in the Watergate coverup. With the prospect of receiving stiff sentences from unsympathetic judges, he may choose to start telling more of what he knows about Watergate. If he does make a deal, he might topple some other top White House dominoes...