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...leaks of classified Government information to newspapers, especially the Pentagon papers, Nixon in June 1971 created a White House group called the Special Investigations Unit, also known as the plumbers. It was supervised by John Ehrlichman, directed by Egil Krogh and included David Young, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy. Its activities included tapping the phones of officials and newsmen suspected of handling leaked information; burglarizing the office of a psychiatrist consulted by Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg; investigating Senator Edward Kennedy's Chappaquiddick accident; covertly spiriting ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard out of Washington; and fabricating a State...
...point, Defendant G. Gordon Liddy's lawyer, Peter Maroulis, stood to offer an objection, but Liddy waved him down and whispered in his ear. Said Sirica sarcastically: "I see you're getting some good legal advice from your client, the former attorney." Maroulis again bounded to his feet at this implication that Liddy had already been disbarred. Sirica dismissed him brusquely: "All right, he's still a lawyer admitted to the bar, I'll grant you. Now let's get on with...
...true, as John Dean, the President's fired counsel, testified, that Dean had reported to him about Convicted Wiretapper G. Gordon Liddy's bizarre political espionage plans as early as February 1972? Haldeman: "I don't have a recollection." Had he seen a memo prepared for him by his assistant Gordon Strachan indicating former Attorney General John Mitchell's approval of a $300,000 budget for Liddy's "sophisticated intelligence-gathering plan"? "I don't recall." Did he recall reading a "talking paper" about this plan given him by Strachan for a meeting with...
...requested the tapes of one telephone conversation and seven meetings. Eventually, the White House did supply Cox with a White House memo that dealt with Hunt's shift from the White House to the Re-Election Committee's payroll, and another written by former White House Aide Gordon Strachan, under the principles enunciated by White House Attorney Charles Wright (see box). He said that the President would not withhold material dealing with his role as head of the Republican Party or extensively testified about by other witnesses and already made more or less public. Cox might later...
Talking Paper. Attention will undoubtedly shift this week to Nixon's other former close aide, Bob Haldeman, who is scheduled to follow Ehrlichman before the Ervin committee. Haldeman was directly implicated last week by his assistant, Gordon Strachan, a precise, apparently candid witness, who served as Haldeman's liaison with the Nixon re-election committee...