Word: gordon
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...well as precisely what the undercover team was after. At their March 21, 1973 meeting, Dean told Nixon that the operation originated with an order from Haldeman to "set up a perfectly legitimate campaign intelligence operation" within the Nixon re-election committee. In January 1972, White House "Plumber" G. Gordon Liddy came up with an incredible scheme that he said would cost $1 million. According to Dean, it involved "black-bag operations, kidnaping, pro viding prostitutes to weaken the opposition, bugging, mugging teams...
...guess he should, shouldn't he?" Nixon observes, when his counsel suggests that Gordon Strachan pretend he knows nothing about anything. "I suppose we can't call that justice, can we?" "How bad would it hurt the country, John," the president quips, "to have the FBI so terribly damaged?" But though the president can be subtly satirical, he can laugh with the groundlings, too. "Well, they are really fine Americans, you know," he remarks--to general hilarity--of the owners of the Marriott Hotel chain. "And gee whiz, they don't drink themselves, but they make...
...largely gone. "People realize that business is starting to clean up, to become conscious of its responsibilities," says Senior Ron Wolff of Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. Students once again seem more interested in careers than causes. "When I started college, I wanted to help peopie," says Diane Gordon, a senior at Syracuse University. "Now I want to help myself...
...expensive hotel in Lawnsmere," a pseudonymous Surrey town only a Times-crossword-puzzle by train from London. As Mark tells it in a sadder-but-wiser voice, the plan was to stash his family in the countryside while he commuted to the city to research a book about Sir Gordon Sandstone, a hero of the Boer...
...list is still growing, but already it resembles a Watergate Who's Who-former Attorney General John Mitchell, former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, former White House Aides H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Dwight Chapin, Herbert Porter and Gordon Strachan, and California Lieu tenant Governor Ed Reinecke. All have been accused of lying at one time or an other during Watergate-related investigations. Chapin and Porter have already been convicted and others are likely to meet the same fate. The Watergate prosecutors seem to be turning up a prevarication in every pot, and the irony of the situation is pain fully...