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...Watergate controversy has not only driven people out of the White House, but is also driving them out of town-or at least perhaps to an altered standard of living. Nixon's two top former aides, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have put their houses up for sale. Ehrlichman has listed his six-bedroom suburban Virginia home at $139,000. Haldeman has his Georgetown town house rented for the summer and listed for $175,000. So far, neither man has given any indication about future plans...
...President maintained that the White House interfered with the Watergate investigation only to protect national security, a series of CIA memos tell a different story. A memo from Lieut. General Vernon A. Walters, deputy director of the CIA, for example, describes a June 23 meeting with Ehrlichman and Haldeman that he attended with then CIA Director Richard Helms. "Haldeman said the 'bugging' affair at the Democratic National Committee headquarters had made a lot of noise and that the Democrats are trying to maximize it," Walters wrote. "The FBI had been called in and was investigating the matter...
...despite the fact that Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Gray had now been informed by the highest CIA authority that no FBI investigation could harm the CIA, the matter was not dropped. Declared the Walters memo: "Haldeman then stated that I could tell Gray that I had talked to the White House and suggested that the investigation not be pushed further." Walters agreed to do so the very same...
...wasn't as efficient as the iron man H.R. Haldeman. Herb Klein kept his files in his coat pocket or somewhere, and like most ex-reporters he ignored flow charts and organization tables. What he had was an understanding that democracy and its government are untidy and considerably inefficient, and there isn't a hell of a lot you can do about that without destroying their soul...
Much of this drift can be laid to the relative disarray in the White House, which was formerly run with the highhanded authoritarianism of a Prussian drill field by the President's two top aides, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman...