Word: haldeman
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...true, as John Dean, the President's fired counsel, testified, that Dean had reported to him about Convicted Wiretapper G. Gordon Liddy's bizarre political espionage plans as early as February 1972? Haldeman: "I don't have a recollection." Had he seen a memo prepared for him by his assistant Gordon Strachan indicating former Attorney General John Mitchell's approval of a $300,000 budget for Liddy's "sophisticated intelligence-gathering plan"? "I don't recall." Did he recall reading a "talking paper" about this plan given him by Strachan for a meeting with...
After the arrests at the Watergate, was it true, as Strachan testified, that Haldeman ordered him to "clean the files"? "I don't recall the conversation." Did Strachan, again as he testified, report to Haldeman that he had destroyed Watergate-related files? "No, sir, I don't recall a report from...
...Haldeman was more emphatic in making a few flat denials. He said that both Dean and Jeb Stuart Magruder, former Nixon campaign deputy, were wrong in testifying that on separate occasions they had told him that Magruder intended to commit perjury...
...Haldeman's explanation on another area of possible personal complicity was unconvincing. He said that he had been told by Dean that the Nixon re-election committee needed cash funds to pay legal fees for the men arrested at the Watergate. Haldeman had control of some $350,000 belonging to the committee that he wanted to return, although this was complicated by changes in the campaign funding laws. He admitted suggesting to Dean that "both problems" could be met by transferring this money to the committee. But he insisted, under rough questioning, that he did not know that...
...While Haldeman deftly deflected all attempts by the Ervin committee to get him to confirm the damaging claims of other witnesses, he ran into senatorial outrage as he tried to carry out his main mission before the committee: to show that Richard Nixon had no knowledge of the massive cover-up conspiracy. Haldeman's sensational weapon was his revelation that the President had permitted him to listen to some of the taped conversations between Nixon and Dean that are among the objects of a legal showdown between the Congress and the President...