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...Haldeman agreed that Dean told the President that E. Howard Hunt, one of the arrested Watergate burglars, was demanding $120,000 in cash, "or else he would tell about the seamy things he had done for Ehrlichman," presumably as one of the White House squad of secret investigators, "the plumbers." According to Haldeman, Nixon asked how much money.would have to be raised over the years to meet such demands, and Dean replied, "probably a million dollars?but the problem is that it is hard to raise...
...President replied, according to Haldeman, "There is no problem in raising a million dollars, we can do that." Up to this critical point, Haldeman and Dean were still in agreement. Then, Haldeman testified, Nixon added five crucial words: "But it would be wrong." Those five words, claims the indictment, as Haldeman "then and there well knew, were false." They, of course, change Nixon's position completely. Instead of agreeing to pay Hunt hush money, as Dean charged, the President was portrayed...
...Haldeman as ruling such a move out of consideration. Another Haldeman claim that the grand jury apparently did not accept was that throughout this exchange Nixon "led Dean on. . . obviously trying to smoke out what was really going...
...know, until the time of my own investigation, of any efforts to provide the Watergate defendants with funds" and "I took no part in, nor was I aware of, any efforts that might have been made to cover up Watergate." Asked during an Aug. 22 press conference about Haldeman's version before the Senate committee of the $1 million discussion, Nixon replied: "His statement is accurate." Nixon said he had. in fact, told Dean: "John, it is wrong. It won't work...
Woven through the grand jury's various allegations against the newly indicted men was evidence that a large payment was, in fact, made to Hunt a few hours after this crucial conversation of Dean, Haldeman and Nixon. It would have been foolhardy, indeed, for Nixon's aides to carry out such payoffs if the President had flatly banned them as wrong. According to the indictment, after the end of this White House meeting, Haldeman called John Mitchell. Mitchell minutes later "had a telephone conversation with Fred C. LaRue [a Mitchell deputy], during which Mitchell authorized LaRue to make a payment...