Word: coverups
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...pushed on, producing revelations that in a less sensation-surfeited time would probably have stolen the nation's attention from the traveling presidential party. The new evidence solidly supported the already strong case that Nixon had engaged in a conspiracy to conceal his active role in the Watergate coverup...
...substance of two memos prepared by one of the House Judiciary Committee's staff lawyers and leaked by proimpeachment Democratic sources on the committee was highly damaging. It was that 1) Nixon had directed his former high aides to cover up the illegal coverup, and 2) the White House-released transcripts of Nixon's taped conversations had been deliberately edited to obscure that crucial fact. William P. Dixon, the writer of the memos, was careful to note that his was only "one possible interpretation" of Nixon's intent. Yet his comparison of the White House transcripts with...
...TIME has learned from knowledgeable people close to Colson that as he began telling his story to investigators last week, the initial outlines contradicted Nixon's public Watergate defense. Colson is saying that he talked with Nixon in both January and February of last year about a Watergate coverup. In January, he says, he told the President: "Something is going on here that is very wrong. There's got to be an investigation." Colson quotes Nixon as replying: "What do you think we ought to do?" Colson's answer: "I'll see what I can find...
Colson made similar statements in an interview with the New York Times a year ago-but he interpreted the alleged conversations with Nixon as evidence that the President had been unaware of the coverup. Nevertheless the Colson account conflicts with Nixon's claim that he first learned about the cash payoffs and cover-up from Dean on March 21. As Colson tells it, Nixon was warned two months earlier-and took no action...
...Department elaborates: "Let us suppose the Attorney General learned the same facts. We would all expect him to turn that information over to the criminal division immediately." By those standards, the Justice official says, "if the President did not have a reasonable motive for withholding his knowledge of the coverup, then he could be guilty of an obstruction of justice." And he would be guilty partly because he was the head of the legal system, not in spite of that fact. As former Attorney General Elliot Richardson puts it, "The President, like anyone else in law enforcement, is subject...