Word: coverups
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...approved in advance the Watergate burglary and bugging. But almost three out of five people surveyed refuse to believe his denials that he knew of the cover-up that followed.* While only one in four would approve of impeaching Nixon if he was merely aware of the coverup, nearly half believe that he should be removed from office if it is shown that he knew about the plot in advance. Of the people in the sample, 62% voted for Nixon in November. The questions...
President Nixon admitted that he had ignored "staff warning signals" of Watergate cover-up attempts. "With hindsight, it is apparent that I should have given more heed to warning signals I received along the way about the coverup," he said in a statement on Tuesday...
...memorandum, written by then CIA deputy director Lt. Gen. Vernon Walters, said that Gray advised Nixon that top-level advisers were involved in the coverup. The memo was obtained by NBC News...
Walter's memo directly contradicts the President's contention that he had no knowledge of a White House coverup until March 1973. Nixon made this assertion April 30 in a national television address on the Watergate affair...
Gray reportedly told Nixon that he should fire the aides involved in the coverup. Nixon asked how high up the involvement went, and Gray replied, according to the memo, "pretty high...