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...Democratic conservatives and many Republicans. Nixon's secretive handling of the Watergate affair has dismayed his strongest backers. Republican office holders feel that they are being needlessly tarred by Watergate and want the real culprits exposed. Also, many Congressmen disdain such intimate Nixon aides as John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman and their assistants, who are often regarded by veteran politicians as arrogant, inexperienced and selfishly protective of the President. Noting that some members of the White House staff seem to be enmeshed in the Watergate affair, one Republican Senator said sarcastically: "It couldn't happen to a better bunch...
Leaks. There were widespread leaks to newsmen about McCord's charges-all of which seemed to be based on hearsay and were so far unsubstantiated. One committee member, Connecticut Republican Lowell P. Weicker Jr., publicly demanded the resignation of Haldeman, the President's chief of staff. Weicker claimed that Haldeman "probably" knew about an operation of political sabotage against the Democrats that was far broader than the Watergate eavesdropping...
What went on inside Watergate between Mssrs. Liddy, Hung, Dean, Gray, Stans, Chapin, Colson, McCord, Segretti, Magruder, Haldeman and Mitchell, and doubtless others, will take a legal expert to unravel. What stares us in the face, yet remains unsaid (either from motives of delicacy or hesitancy to deface Uncle Sam, or else perhaps from fear of reprisal) is that in so large an operation, the boss himself must have been informed, or if not, his ignorance is no less culpable...
...also attended, McCord claimed, by Hunt and by Presidential Counsel John Dean (TIME, April 2). McCord contended that Dean had later told Liddy that Mitchell had approved the plans. According to McCord, Hunt had shown copies of the Watergate plans to Colson, Magruder knew about the plans, and Haldeman "knew what was going...
...shouldn't testify.") John Mitchell* said that "I deeply resent the slanderous and false statements about me," and reaffirmed earlier denials of any advance knowledge of the Watergate affair. Colson termed McCord's mention of him "a goddamned lie." Magruder stood by his earlier denials, and Haldeman was covered by the Nixon announcement last August that "no one presently employed by the White House" was involved...