Word: haldeman
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...still to be tested under fire, and a fuller accounting may well shift the entire perspective. But what was known of his story on the eve of his testimony directly assailed the past public positions of the President and also of Nixon's chief former aides, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, both of whom were Dean's superiors in the White House...
After convicted Wiretapper James McCord wrote a letter to Federal Judge John Sirica claiming that higher officials were involved, the cover-up began to come apart, and Nixon, according to Dean, was troubled. It did not help when Dean told the President last spring that Haldeman and Ehrlichman, as well as Dean himself, might be indicted. The President then discussed with Dean the possibility of his own impeachment-a damaging indication of how seriously Nixon took his own involvement...
...Haldeman and Ehrlichman, who have consistently denied that either they or the President had any knowledge of the political-espionage plans or the post-Watergate obstruction of justice, Dean told the committee staff that he fully briefed both of these intimate Nixon aides within two weeks after the arrests at Democratic headquarters. At that time, Dean said, he knew that former Attorney General John Mitchell and the Nixon re-election committee's deputy director, Jeb Stuart Magruder, had been aware of the wiretapping plans, and held strong suspicions that Colson had been as well...
...Plans for the Watergate break-in and wiretapping were known in advance by former White House aides H.R. Haldeman, Gordon Strachan and, in Dean's belief, Colson...
...Dean does not know whether Attorney General John Mitchell approved the Watergate wiretapping operation but contends that if he did so it was only under strong White House pressure originating with Haldeman. One wiretapping target, former Democratic National Chairman Larry O'Brien, was selected by the White House on the orders of Haldeman...