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...details damaging to the defense. In response to the quizzing of Assistant Prosecutor Jill Wine Volner, he repeated his insistence that Mitchell had "reluctantly" approved the bugging of then Democratic National Chairman Larry O'Brien's office. He testified too that he had kept Defendant H.R. Haldeman's assistant, Gordon Strachan, informed of the bugging plans so that Haldeman could relay information "as he saw fit" to President Richard Nixon...
...first fun in this sort of riddle is to see how far the similarities go. Sister Walburga and Sister Mildred, the Lady Abbess's co-plotters and hatchet nuns, are obviously Haldeman and Ehrlichman. Peripatetic Sister Gertrude, who phones in nightly from Reykjavik or Mombasa and, in a German accent, recommends the study of Machiavelli, is our very own Secretary of Snake. Sister Felicity seems to be an unstable amalgam of George McGovern and John Dean...
Officious Clerk. Above all, The Palace Guard tells precisely how H.R. Haldeman, clearly the villain of the book, schemed to silence or neutralize the voices of moderation and close the Oval Office door to all but his own favorites. At first, say Rather and Gates, Haldeman tentatively tested his influence by telling Burns to leave a note, rather than re-enter Nixon's office to deliver an afterthought. The dignified Burns considered it unseemly to argue with this "officious clerk"-and Haldeman was emboldened. When he personally pulled his U.C.L.A. classmate, fellow Eagle Scout and prot...
...that point, the authors believe, Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Mitchell were determined to humiliate, rather than pacify, the left. They reinforced Nixon's own suspicions and joined him in trying to destroy Daniel Ellsberg, a symbol of antiwar, anti-Middle America dissent, for leaking the Pentagon papers. The plumbers were installed. Spiro Agnew was unleashed. Enemy lists flourished. Watergate followed...
...theory seems simplistic, Rather and Gates nevertheless embellish it with fresh details of the intrigue around Nixon and new White House anecdotes. Haldeman, they claim, cemented his relationship with Nixon in 1961 by bolstering the then defeated candidate's shattered ego through weeks of patient listening and encouragement as Nixon labored over Six Crises. It is ironic, then, that the authors finally blame Haldeman for the act that ultimately finished Nixon: the secret taping of White House conversations. It was Haldeman's idea, they suggest, that after Nixon finished his second term, the tapes would be carefully edited...