Word: coverups
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...minor White House official, TIME has learned, has told Justice Department investigators that even he was part of the extensive coverup. Herbert L. Porter, an assistant in the White House communications office last year, said that he had initially lied to the grand jury about payments to Liddy. According to sources close to the investigation, Porter said that he and Magruder had agreed on a story about having given Liddy
...harder to believe that after the Watergate arrests the President did not have at least a suspicion of the coverup. If he was not suspicious, he knew even less about some of his own aides than the press did. How could so many of his loyal men lie to him so long? Why did Nixon wait until March to start a tough investigation of his own? And if Dean is right, of course, Nixon knew all about the concealment...
...breakfast in another part of Washington still another former Cabinet officer showed the same doubts. If evidence surfaced linking the President to the bugging or the coverup, he said, he did not want to hear about it or think about...
...Nixon knew of the coverup attempt -- as John W. Dean III, his former legal counsel, is prepared to testify -- the President must be denounced for his two-faced attitude toward obtaining the truth about the bugging operation. He says the system will bring out the truth, yet he obstructs the system by reinvoking executive privilege...
...above and below" him at the White House. There are only three men above Dean in the chain of command: Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman, chief of the White House staff-and Nixon. Others at the department contend that since Dean might turn out to be the main architect of the coverup, he should not be allowed to evade punishment...