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...officials may have disliked Cox's success in persuading former presidential aides-so far John Dean, Jeb Magruder and Fred LaRue-to agree to testify for the prosecution in return for leniency in their own cases. Members of the task force were reportedly pressuring John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman, two of Nixon's highest-ranking aides until the scandal blew, to make some sort of deal...
...cooperated with prosecutors, admitted some of their own illegal acts and already entered guilty pleas, could wind up as the only principals to face punishment. Thus John Dean, Jeb Stuart Magruder and Fred LaRue, for example, might be jailed, while such adamant professors of innocence as John Ehrlichman, Bob Haldeman and John Mitchell might go free. While this outcome might not displease the White House, it would hardly reassure the public...
...invoked as to any testimony concerning possible criminal conduct in the matters presently under investigation, including the Watergate affair and the alleged cover-up." Confidentiality, the court continued, had been destroyed by public discussion of the contents of the tapes. The court was doubtless alluding to H.R. Haldeman's mention of them in his appearance before the Senate Watergate committee. Finally, said the court, claims for Executive privilege fail "in the face of the uniquely powerful showing made by the special prosecutor...
Those White House team players, big and little, have pulled apart and formed their own defenses, tried to reorder their shattered worlds. To some of them, it is now clear that Nixon was their nemesis. In private, they wonder just how long Mitchell, Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Agnew-maybe Rebozo-and their tortured wives and children can cling to their professions of presidential innocence, can display faulty memories and live behind legal gimmicks. Will one break...
...slide after all, that he is being swept along once again by events that cannot be foreseen or managed. There is Archie Cox and the vast court apparatus poised to spring. Who can calculate what Hunt or Liddy or Mitchell or Martha or Dean or Ehrlichman or Haldeman...