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...Nixon's decision merely to authorize curt denials through White House spokesmen rather than speak openly and fully. Besides the single court-proven act of spying at the Watergate, there are now broader charges of a covert and systematic attempt by Nixon's re-election officials to disrupt the campaigns of potential Democratic opponents in last year's presidential election...
...revolutionaries do not present a threat to U.S. security. There is no viable social program which they would disrupt. The success of a revolution, however, would generate social and economic instability and land reforms unfavorable to U.S. business. As long as the United States confines its interests to the support of business rather that long-term peaceful and friendly relations with the peoples of Latin American countries, we will continue to support suppression...
...easy to design a building for the Yard, since it is an almost sacred area for anyone even remotely connected with Harvard, and disrupting its austere appearance would be akin to heresy. When Lamont Library was built in 1947, the public was assured that it would solve Harvard's library space problems and would not disrupt the Yard. "With a steel frame and a brick exterior, the new library will outwardly preserve the conservative architecture of the Yard, while the interior will be of modernistic design," the Crimson wrote on June...
...addition, said Gray under questioning, he gave Dean a transcript of interviews that the FBI had with Donald H. Segretti. He is the California lawyer who was cited in FBI reports as having been hired by the Nixon committee to try to disrupt the campaigns of Democratic candidates. The Washington Post claimed that White House aides showed the transcript to Segretti and used it to help coach him prior to his appearance before the Watergate grand jury. Asked about this by Gray, Dean denied that he or anyone else at the White House had shown the reports to Segretti...
...case involves the complex dealings of three men: Dwight L. Chapin, who was the President's appointments secretary at the time of the Watergate bugging; Herbert W. Kalmbach, Nixon's personal attorney; and Donald Segretti, a California lawyer who Justice Department officials say has admitted trying to disrupt the campaigns of Democratic presidential candidates last year. In October, several publications, including TIME and the Washington Post, reported that Chapin had hired Segretti and that Kalmbach had paid Segretti out of funds collected by Nixon's re-election committee...