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Butterfield's explanation for revealing the presidential bugging appeared to be a self-protective afterthought. He said that he knew both Haldeman and an assistant, Lawrence Higby, had been quizzed by the committee staff, and he assumed that they must have been asked the same question and answered it honestly. He said he also assumed that the President planned eventually to use the tapes in his own defense...
TIME has learned that Haldeman was not directly asked about the existence of a recording
...conversation of all. By Dean's account, the President discussed both payoffs and Executive clemency for the convicted wiretappers. Dean said that he thought it might cost $1,000,000 to keep the men quiet. "He told me that that was no problem, and he also looked over at Haldeman and repeated the statement." Later, testified Dean: "The President then referred to the fact that Hunt had been promised Executive clemency. He said that...
Four former Nixon aides, who needed to know where Nixon was at all times, had locator boxes in their offices. They were: H.R. Haldeman, onetime chief of staff; Dwight L. Chapin, onetime presidential appointments secretary; Stephen B. Bull, who assisted Chapin with appointments; and Butterfield, then a Haldeman aide. Butterfield also had on his phone a button that could turn on the microphones in the Cabinet Room. When the locator box indicated that the President had entered the Cabinet Room, Butterfield pressed a switch that started the recording device there. Under the table in the Cabinet Room were two buttons...
Though they are not likely to, the two men who could do most to untangle the contradictions of all the Watergate testimony are due to face the Ervin committee this week. Until their resignations April 30, H.R. Haldeman as White House Chief of Staff and John D. Ehrlichman as Domestic Affairs Adviser were, along with Henry Kissinger, the men closest to Richard Nixon. Both are Christian Scientists; they attended U.C.L.A. together, share a passion for photography, a longtime friendship -and unswerving loyalty to Nixon...