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Shambles. Fatigue lines marring his California-Florida tan ("he has aged ten or 15 years," said one dismayed adviser), the President expressed a mixture of gratitude, anger, determination. He praised two of his missing, newly removed aides, White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman and Domestic Affairs Adviser John Ehrlichman, as "dedicated people." Looking at former Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, who also lost his job in the Watergate scandal shuffle, Nixon said, "We are going to miss you." Kleindienst replied, "It has been a privilege to serve with Richard Nixon"?and he left the room to more applause. Then...
...first Nixon aim was to knock down the chances of Muskie's or Senator Edward Kennedy's becoming his opponent and to build up McGovern, who was rightly considered the easier man to beat. This tactic of interfering in the Democratic campaign was approved by Haldeman. Hunt began probing the intimate backgrounds of the potential Democratic candidates. He investigated Kennedy's accident at Chappaquiddick Island. Hoping to further discredit him, Hunt fabricated a State Department cable falsely stating that President John Kennedy had ordered the assassination in 1963 of South Viet Nam's President Diem. Liddy also joined the sabotage...
...same time in 1971, Dwight L. Chapin, the President's appointments secretary, arranged for Donald Segretti to set up a team of infiltration and sabotage agents. Segretti was paid by the President's personal lawyer, Herbert W. Kalmbach. The agents reported to Gordon Strachan, an assistant to Haldeman, while Haldeman apparently was the top supervisor. By March 1972, the loose network had at least 30 agents...
...doubt that after the burglars were arrested, a broad conspiracy was quickly created to conceal the extent of the involvement of the White House and the Nixon committee. The New York Times reported last week that federal investigators have discovered that the principal cover-up conspirators were Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean, Mitchell, Magruder and LaRue. Each one, the investigators contend, has lied to either the prosecutors, to federal investigators, or to other White House officials...
Through the last few harrowing weeks, the President has repeatedly reminded the public that these men -- particularly Haldeman and Ehrlichman -- believed in the action they took. There is no assurance that Nixon did not also believe in the espionage as well. Somehow, misguided idealism is less comforting than intentional wrongdoing and is the first giant step to a total disregard for civil liberties...