Word: haldeman
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...executive privilege, although it is inconceivable that any question of national security could enter into an investigation of the illegal "third-rate" bugging of Democratic National Headquarters. But it is even more inconceivable that Ervin and his committee, before a national television audience, will be satisfied if Ehrlichman, Haldeman and the entire cast of Watergate characters obstruct the committee's attempt to bring out the facts about the bugging. When Ervin -- and the country -- demands to know if the Presidency was used for espionage purposes, or to cover up, it will not be sufficient to reply, "I refuse to answer...
...President showed himself willing to clean out his administration last week, but his refusal to frankly and forthrightly pursue justice indicates that the espionage ranges far beyond the third-rate burglary at the Watergate. The men who broke into that office have been convicted, White House aides Ehrlichman and Haldeman have resigned: Nixon can no longer placate the American people by playing administration musical chairs. His secrecy betrays a presidential fear that some deeper involvement will come out. In that case, the American people have nothing to fear but a frightened President Nixon...
...Haldeman & Co. represent the true Middle America, the people Haldeman says read the Reader's Digest? That obviously is ridiculous. In the Detroit Athletic Club, they laugh more. In the suburbs of St. Louis, they understand the Constitution of the U.S. better. In San Francisco, they listen to opposing views more often. English Writer Michael Davie says that the White House wrecking crew forms a new genre of political men, something he labels "Orange County boys," a group molded by the spirit of that Southern California area where, he suggests, fear, suspicion and ignorance come together in unfortunate combinations...
...collapse of Haldeman's paper empire has cast its own mythological aura over the scene. One wanders along the White House drive these days disbelieving what one hears and sees. Twice before in the past decade it has happened. In the hours after John Kennedy's assassination, the enormity of the event was too much to absorb. In the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination, when parts of Washington were burned and looted, people stood in a stupor on the White House lawn and saw the smoke drift over them and watched as looters broke windows...
...political espionage for the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, and named Donald Segretti as one of the operatives. Five days later, the Post (along with TIME) linked Segretti to Presidential Appointments Secretary Dwight Chapin. On Oct. 25, Woodward and Bernstein wrote that Presidential Aide H R. Haldeman had access to a secret campaign kitty used in part to fund political sabotage. Though other publications-principally TIME and the New York Times-kept up a steady rhythm of Watergate beats, Republican spokesmen reserved their harshest denunciations for the Post The paper appeared to have been caught...