Word: coverups
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Mainly Watergate-the break-in and the coverup. There are also some documents in other areas...
...impeachment would vastly increase if another Watergate bombshell burst over Nixon's head. Says one key Republican: "If, for example, it were shown that the President had anything to do with the 18-minute erasure, or that he was directly involved in any other aspect of the coverup, all bets against impeachment would...
...American people are still undecided about what to do with Richard Nixon. The latest polls indicate a profound disenchantment with the man and a distrust of his motives: only 27% of the public approve of his current performance in office; 67% think that he knew about the Watergate coverup; 59% feel that 18½ minutes of a crucial tape were deliberately erased because they would have proved his involvement in the coverup. A year ago, the idea of impeaching the President was anathema to great numbers of Americans. There remains a nagging reluctance...
...scandal ballooned well beyond a political burglary and its coverup, wide-ranging allegations against Nixon himself became part of the sordid affair. They included contentions that Nixon had: 1) intervened in an antitrust action against ITT in return for political contributions; 2) raised milk support prices and reduced dairy imports for similar considerations...
...ruefully admitted their own guilty roles in the several Watergate conspiracies. Others unconvincingly denied any participation by themselves or anyone at the White House. But only the relatively powerless John Dean, tainted but nevertheless courageous in his turncoat testimony, made grave accusations of the President's participation in the coverup. His chilling tale, conveyed in a lifeless baritone, was sharply denied by such far more influential and shrewd Nixon intimates as H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell...