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...coverup, letting the chips?and men?fall where they might...
...most part, however, Nixon came across in the transcripts as a coarse and cynical President, chiefly bent on manipulating associates and plotting strategies to keep himself isolated and insulated from Watergate. The transcripts showed a President creating an environment of deceit and dishonesty, of evasion and coverup. In public, Nixon was pictured as detached, too busy with affairs of state to probe Watergate. In private, the transcripts showed that he wanted to know every detail of the scandal's effect on the press and public. Stratagems were devised; "scenarios" were roughed out and rehearsed. Answers were shaped for questions sure...
More Tapes. The Judiciary Committee continued to prepare for the hearings on impeachment, which it would like to begin May 7. Chairman Rodino acknowledged that the committee has asked for-but not yet subpoenaed-some 79 additional tapes and other documents from the White House bearing on the Watergate coverup, the Administration's 1971 decision to increase milk price supports and its antitrust settlement with ITT Corp. that year...
They include Nixon's possible involvement in the Watergate coverup, his connections with the White House undercover team known as the plumbers and with the dirty-tricks operations of his 1972 re-election campaign committee and charges that he and his staff promised favors in return for campaign contributions from ITT Corp., the milk producers, Fugitive Financier Robert...
...records, personal memorandums and hotel logs. Racing against the May 28 deadline that will bring the committee's investigation to a close, they had produced by last week an outline of a cover-up of the $100,000 transaction that mirrored on a smaller scale the whole Watergate coverup...