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Magruder's evocation of the prevailing mentality in the White House is, in its way, nearly as revealing as that of the Nixon transcripts. In the best locker-room and fraternity tradition, all the President's men had their nicknames. John Dean told the Ervin committee last year about H.R. ("The Brush") Haldeman and John ("The Pipe") Mitchell, but Magruder adds to the list. Transportation Secretary John Volpe was "The Bus Driver"; Defense Secretary Melvin Laird was "The Bullet"; Postmaster General Winton Blount was "The Postman"; and Martha Mitchell was known as "The Account," an advertising term...
...Ervin Jr., LL.D., Democratic Senator from North Carolina. When it seemed there was little integrity left, his statesmanship captured the nation's imagination...
...page draft of the Senate Watergate committee's final report was made available. The deadline for its being approved by the committee and issued is May 28, the date on which the committee is scheduled to disband. The report asserts that John Mitchell, despite his denials before the Ervin committee, did approve the intelligence-gathering scheme that led to the Watergate break-in on June 17, 1972. The draft says that the money clandestinely paid by White House officials to the original seven Watergate defendants was intended to buy their silence, not simply as legitimate support for their families...
...more battles the President wins, like the economical stabilization performance, the more urgent the Ervin hearings become. It's the only thing they have left now. You're winning all the big ones...
Assured that Chapin did not know about Watergate, the President asks if Gordon Strachan (a Haldeman aide) was aware. Dean admits that Strachan knew early on, but has twice denied to Federal investigators having any knowledge. Dean says that Strachan is ready to deny it again before the Ervin committee...