Word: haldeman
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...Blind Ambition and John Ehrlichman's novel The Company turned the history into the sort of instant legend in which fact and fabrication become indistinguishable. Watergate created its own rich vocabulary-of "stonewalling" and "twisting slowly slowly in the wind," of the "limited hangout" and expletives deleted." Haldeman, Ehrlichman and "the Big Enchilada,' as they called Attorney General John Mitchell, spoke a language of breezily menacing bonhomie...
...only four days after H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman resigned as part of President Nixon's effort to put Watergate behind him, I was airborne for Moscow. At that time, Soviet-American relations were unusually free of tension. A summit between Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon was to take place in June on American soil; my few days in the Soviet Union in May were to prepare for it. On this trip I had a glimpse of Brezhnev that intrigues me to this day when I reflect on whether there can ever be a stable coexistence between...
...developed without the cooperation of the highest levels of the Administration. Garment thought that Special Counsel to the President Charles W. Colson had probably been the "evil genius" behind it. Yet the scale of the wrongdoing really made it impossible to imagine that Assistants to the President H.R. (Bob) Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, whom the press had nicknamed "the Germans," had been unaware. And if Haldeman and Ehrlichman were involved, it was nearly inconceivable that the President had been completely ignorant...
...know now that the day had been one of frenzied meetings between Nixon, Haldeman, Ehrlichman and former Attorney General and Campaign Manager John Mitchell. But I was not aware of them. I would like to be able to report that I said something helpful or constructive to the obviously distraught President. But few advisers possess the fortitude to tell their President that they do not know what he is talking about. I mumbled something noncommittal that Nixon construed as assent. "All right," he said, "we will draw the wagons around the White House." He gave that enigmatic metaphor no further...
...fall guy? If Mitchell was involved, the scandal would be uncontainable. John Mitchell, that epitome of loyalty, would never have acted without at least believing that he was carrying out presidential wishes. Whatever hypothesis one considered-Garment's, which saw Colson as the chief villain with Haldeman and Ehrlichman in supporting roles, or Ehrlichman's, apparently placing the blame on Mitchell-Watergate was bound to rock the nation. It simply was not credible, least of all to those of us who knew how the White House operated, that Nixon's paladins had acted totally on their...