Word: gordon
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That question indeed occurred to an assistant special Watergate prosecutor, Richard Ben-Veniste. Logically, one Watergate defendant that the White House should have been worried about was G. Gordon Liddy, then a fairly high official of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Ehrlichman testified that he knew by June 20 that Liddy had headed the Watergate break-in team. Yet Ehrlichman told Ben-Veniste that he did not inform the President of Liddy's role...
...Judiciary Committee's version of a March 13 conversation between Nixon and Dean shows clearly, as do the transcripts issued by the White House, that the President was then aware of perjury by Gordon Strachan, Haldeman's top aide. The President on that day also explicitly rejected the "hang-out road" - meaning a complete disclosure...
...fateful March 21. A statement made by the President on his Dictabelt machine just after his meeting with Dean and transcribed by the Judiciary Committee shows that he admired those of his aides who lied to investigating groups and had contempt for those who told the truth. He praised Gordon Strachan- who at the time was stonewalling FBI investigators and Government prosecutors with denials that led later to his indictment for perjury. In Nixon's words, Strachan was "a real . . . courageous fellow through all this." By contrast, Nixon talked of Magruder, who was cooperating with prosecutors, as "a rather...
...what's going on in this campaign and I don't think you ought to try to know." And when Liddy, depressed because his plan for the burglary seemed to be getting no where, approached Dean early in 1972, Dean gave him a moral stiff-arm: "Well, Gordon, you recall that we're not going to talk about that...
...even know about it until after it happened. Yet the weight of evidence-many memos and recalled conversations-counted against him. Last week, after a little more than three hours' deliberation, the jury found him guilty of conspiracy and three counts of perjury. The other, lesser defendants-G. Gordon Liddy, Bernard L. Barker and Eugenic Martinez-were also convicted of conspiracy...