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Testifying under oath before a select Senate committee, McCord implicated an impressive list of people in the Watergate affair. The list included former Attorney General John Mitchell, who headed the Nixon committee at the time of the Watergate arrests; H.R. Haldeman, the President's White House chief of staff; John Dean III, Nixon's chief legal counsel; Charles Colson, a former Nixon counsel; and Jeb Stuart Magruder, a former White House aide and deputy director of the re-election committee who is now an assistant to the Secretary of Commerce. McCord, who faces up to 45 years...
This expanding circle of presidential "agents" is largely the creation of two of Nixon's closest and toughest aides, John Ehrlichman and H.R. (Bob) Haldeman, referred to openly and jocularly by Ohio Republican Senator William Saxbe as those "two Nazis Nixon keeps around him." A key operator in selecting and placing the agents is Fred Malek, 36, former chief of the White House personnel office, who has now acquired a pivotal Government-wide supervisory job as Deputy Director of OMB, the Office of Management and Budget. Nixon had given Malek the choice of a Cabinet position ("a small department...
Presidential Press Secretary Ron Ziegler rarely loses his temper. But he lost it last week when newsmen questioned him closely about the removal of Robert H. Taylor, the head of the White House Secret Service detail, after a run-in with Nixon's Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman. Ziegler claimed Taylor had been promoted to the somewhat lesser job of protecting visiting foreign dignitaries. "Why are you going through this charade?" demanded one White House correspondent. "Why not just level about it?" "You can assess what I am doing here as a charade," Ziegler shot back, "[but] I take...
...circumstances of his removal were somewhat unusual, however, to say the least. Taylor, 46, who has worked for the Secret Service since 1950, clashed with Haldeman last Nov. 3. Haldeman asked Taylor to lower the ropes at the airport in Providence, R.I., so that a crowd could come surging through the barriers to create a "spontaneous" welcome. Taylor turned down the request. When Haldeman insisted on having his way, according to one unverified account, Taylor threatened to have him arrested on the spot...
Taylor has been the head of the White House detail since 1967, but Haldeman reportedly went to Secret Service Director James J. Rowley and demanded his removal. (Rowley officially denies this.) On Feb. 9, without any public announcement, Taylor was replaced by Acting Chief Richard E. Keiser...