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Bugging Plan. Indeed, the new tapes provide the first evidence suggesting that Nixon might even have ordered the intelligence-gathering plan that led to the bugging of Democratic national headquarters. On a March 27,1973 tape, H.R. Haldeman told Nixon that "the final step" in putting the bugging plan in operation occurred when Haldeman's aide, Gordon Strachan, called Magruder and told him "to get this going" because "the President wants it done and there's to be no more arguing about it." Magruder, according to Haldeman, passed this presidential order along to former Attorney General John Mitchell...
JOHN MITCHELL. Partly because Nixon, Haldeman and Ehrlichman plotted so strenuously to get "the big enchilada" to take the full rap for Watergate, Mitchell has come off as a less sinister figure than during the Senate Watergate hearings. The prosecution's testimony that he approved the bugging plan rests on the testimony of Magruder and the hearsay claim by LaRue that one of the burglars, G. Gordon Liddy, had named Mitchell as having authorized the project. Mitchell also has the advantage of being defended by the most engaging lawyer in the courtroom, William Hundley. When another attorney asked Judge...
...HALDEMAN. Seated at a table from which he can readily see the jury and smile at the spectators (see chart), the now amiable Haldeman has shed his crewcut, stern image. He cracks jokes during recesses, signs autographs, confers at ease with his tart-tongued attorney, John Wilson. Often shouting and showily unimpressed by the judge, Wilson has tried to provoke Sirica into intemperate statements. He seems intent on seeking an unfair trial so a conviction could be reversed on appeal...
That is about the only escape hatch Haldeman has, since, next to Nixon, the tapes show him in the worst light. He was constantly suggesting "scenarios" to promote phony White House stories, rather than tell the truth about Watergate. He apparently led the Nixon-ordered attempt to get the CIA to impede the FBI's investigation of Watergate, turned over a $350,000 cash fund that was used to buy the burglars' silence and knew in general about the Liddy plans well before anyone was arrested. The case against him looks strongest...
...carry out their plan, But Magruder gave some interesting clues as to why it was dropped. He says the administration was preoccupied with antiwar dissent, the success of the September 15 Moratorium, the October 15 Moratorium in particular. Magruder's first job was to work on this, working for Haldeman with the aid of a memo from Dwight Chapin, which he gives in his book. The memo begins, "If the president decides to announce escalation on November 3, it will then be hard to contain the November 15 Moratorium...