Word: coverups
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...announced that if the 1972 elections were to be repeated today, Senator George McGovern (who received only 38% of the popular vote) would win with 51%. The only comfort the polls held for the President was the curious paradox that, while 73% suspected him of complicity in the Watergate coverup, only 26% wanted him removed from office...
...presidency." On his own role in Watergate, he reasserted his innocence. "In all the millions of words of testimony [before the Ervin committee], there is not the slightest suggestion that I had any knowledge of the planning for the Watergate break-in." As for any knowledge of the coverup, said Nixon, his innocence had been challenged by "only one of the 35 witnesses"-John Dean-"who offered no evidence beyond his own impres sions, and whose testimony has been contradicted by every other witness in a position to know the facts." Having repeated his denials, the President added practically...
There is more to be heard. After a month-long recess Senator Sam Ervin's Select Committee still expects to question seven further witnesses about the Watergate burglary and the subsequent coverup. Also missing from the record is the potentially (but not necessarily) decisive evidence from the tapes of conversations secretly recorded by the President. Nixon's latest account of the affair, presumably to be given this week, could alter the weight of evidence already before the committee...
...have cast Richard Nixon as one of the major Presidents of the 20th century, in a rank just after Franklin Roosevelt, on a level with Truman, Wilson, Eisenhower, Kennedy." Six days after White left the President, James McCord's letter to Judge John Sirica blew open the Watergate coverup. In evident distress, White writes: "I was to be brought down from Olympus to consider, with the President and millions of other Americans, the housekeeping of power-and its abuse...
...only one President has ever been impeached (without being convicted)-a nation that has increasingly come to rely on and even revere the presidency. At the same time, according to Gallup, three out of four Americans now believe Nixon had some part in the Watergate break-in or the coverup...