Word: haldeman
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Ominous. Within the distraught White House staff, speculation about an ominous answer grew beyond the whisper stage. The President was seen at least twice in consultation with John J. Wilson, a Washington attorney who had been retained by two of Nixon's most intimate aides: H.R. Haldeman, the White House chief of staff, and John Ehrlichman, the President's adviser on domestic affairs. Since their names were increasingly being mentioned by other suspects in the Watergate conspiracy as either trying to cover up White House knowledge of the affair or helping to pay the wiretappers to keep quiet...
...addition they said that President Nixon's ability to work with Congress for the remainder of his term will depend on the kind of men he chooses to replace his domestic aides, H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, who resigned earlier this week...
Arthur Maass, Thomson Professor of Government, said that the fact that Haldeman and Ehrlichman were political amateurs contributed to the "lack of political judgment" evidenced by the Watergate affair...
Maass said that with the resignations of Ehrlichman and Haldeman, "the worst is over," and that the next few weeks will bring a reduction in the antagonisms over the Watergate issue...
...endless operations conducted by Hunt and Liddy seem to contradict Nixon's contention that Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman will eventually be cleared of charges. Government investigators say now that the two Nixon aides and four other White House officials led a coverup of the bugging, and former Attorney General John N. Mitchell reportedly ordered the wiretapping of The Times reporters...