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Agnew is also at least partly right in his contention that Petersen mishandled Watergate. He apparently did work closely with ousted Presidential Counsel John W. Dean on the case, and Dean later admitted being part of the coverup. The original investigation failed to turn up evidence of who had authorized the wiretapping and how it was financed, partly because Petersen refused to pursue leads involving $89,000 in suspect Nixon campaign funds. Petersen relied on the testimony of the Nixon re-election committee's Jeb Stuart Magruder at the trial of the original defendants, even though the committee treasurer...
Overall, popular support for the President's position on Watergate is thin (see charts). Only 26% believe his repeated statements that he did not know about or take part in the coverup. Of those who had heard or read about Nixon's television speech (a significantly large 73% had done so), only 39% thought that he was telling the full truth. This figure increased by a negligible 1 % after his later press conference. The press conference did, however, provide one solid gain for Nixon: 22% of his listeners or readers said that they had greater confidence...
...suggestion that income tax audits might be used against Nixon's political opponents and-tenuously tied with Watergate-the President's use of public money to improve his homes at San Clemente and Key Biscayne. Also described more often as "shocking" than "just politics" is the Watergate coverup, including the use of campaign funds to keep the original defendants silent about the involvement of higher officials...
...hours of calm and gentlemanly debate over one of the most fundamental constitutional controversies in U.S. history. Cox, though nominally an employee of Nixon's Administration, had subpoenaed nine of the President's secret tape recordings, all containing presidential conversations concerning the Watergate break-in and coverup. Wright was there to defend the President's refusal to surrender them. Both sides had thoroughly covered the legal ground in written briefs -totaling 50 pages by Wright, 68 by Cox-delivered to the court during the two weeks before the hearing. Still, the oral arguments last week gave...
...comments to Dean in September 1972 that led the White House counsel to believe the President knew all about the coverup...