Word: coverups
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...prior knowledge of the bugging plot. Only 32% of the Republicans felt that removal from office would be justified in this instance, but 51% of Democrats and 44% of Independents thought so. A majority of all groups agreed that impeachment was unjustified if Nixon merely knew of the coverup; 77% of Republicans, 54% of Democrats and 62% of Independents voted...
...people, then the question is: Can you trust him? Impeachment would come up. And this country is in too much trouble internationally to have such a gigantic demonstration of distrust in its leaders. I'm convinced he knew nothing at the inception [of the Watergate affair]. But the coverup...
...even stiffer terms, but with the promise that he would review the penalties if they spoke up, Liddy remained mum and received an additional sentence for contempt of court. McCord took the suggestion to heart, and he wrote Sirica, charging that higher authorities had been involved in a coverup. With that, the whole attempt at concealment began to collapse...
Beyond his attempts to implicate the President in the coverup, the assured and incisive McCord repeatedly asserted that former Attorney General John Mitchell had helped plan, approve and supervise a threefold campaign of political intrigue: electronic bugging, clandestine photography and political espionage. Again McCord's information came from others, mainly Hunt and Liddy, and thus was hearsay...
...that Jeb Magruder had had advance knowledge of the illegal operation. He has admitted lying to the grand jury in denying that he knew in advance about the Watergate bugging and helped to plan it, but he has also claimed that Mitchell asked him to perjure himself in the coverup...