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...says Stephen Hess, once a speechwriter for Dwight Eisenhower...
...Post told of the wholesale destruction of C.R.P. records?the purpose was to expunge incriminating material?a C.R.P. spokesman said: "The sources of the Post are a fountain of misinformation." The initial stories concerning Donald Segretti's dirty-tricks operation and Segretti's connection to White House Aide Dwight Chapin were denounced as "not only fiction but a collection of absurdities." When Jack Anderson revealed that the White House had decided to "nail" the Post for its exposés, Ziegler called the story "flatly incorrect ? wrong, wrong, wrong." These stories, and others that were indignantly denounced, were later...
...upon them. Yet our best Presidents have clung to small pleasures that tied them to the ground and their fellow citizens. Lincoln told stories. Theodore Roosevelt relished the outdoors. His cousin Franklin collected stamps and ship models. Truman devoured biographies. Perhaps the last President not consumed by power was Dwight Eisenhower, who found something special in painting, fishing a quiet trout stream or being on the golf course. Some doubt his legislative contributions, but we can now by contrast see how much his spirit meant to the nation...
Presidential Aide Patrick J. Buchanan last week charged that both the grand jury and the Watergate prosecutors had acted out of political bias against Nixon rather than on the evidence. He claimed, for example, that when Presidential Aide Dwight Chapin was found guilty of perjury on April 5, "members of the prosecution staff, gathered in court, cheered and embraced." Buchanan was not present when the jury announced its verdict; there was, in fact, no such unprofessional demonstration...
Since the original Watergate break-in trial, only one defendant, Dwight Chapin, has been prosecuted all the way to a guilty verdict (he was convicted of perjury). Meanwhile, one by one, Frederick LaRue, Jeb Magruder, Donald Segretti, John Dean, Egil Krogh, Herbert Porter, Herbert Kalmbach, Richard Kleindienst and Charles Colson have all made bargains with the special prosecutor's office and pleaded guilty to reduced offenses. If nothing else, their pleas have raised doubts among both civil libertarians and law-and-order hardliners: Were the deals really necessary...