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...clear-although they could be quickly resolved if Nixon would merely allow the tape to be played in public. By Dean's account, Nixon raised no objection at all to the hush money for Hunt and, further, admitted that he was aware that Hunt had been promised clemency. Haldeman claimed that both Nixon and Dean had concluded that clemency could not be promised. Haldeman also contended that, specifically, the President had said it would be wrong to pay hush money. Nixon confirmed Haldeman's version that he and Dean had ruled out clemency, but claimed that his judgment...
There are serious problems with the Haldeman and Nixon versions. The grand jury cited Haldeman for perjury in claiming that the President had said "but it would be wrong." If the jurors had any doubt at all about how to interpret the tape, they would hardly have considered Haldeman's statement to be indictable. Certainly, if Nixon had clearly declared that the payment of hush money was wrong, even though he may have linked it with clemency as well, the jury similarly would not have accused Haldeman of lying...
Nixon said in his press conference that he did not think his disapproval of clemency or hush money could be misinterpreted at all. "My actions and directions were clear and very precise," he contended. But the indictment details a chain of actions by high Nixon officials, allegedly starting with Haldeman, right after the March 21 meeting that led to a delivery of $75,000 to Hunt's attorney that same evening. Asked about this, Nixon made no effort to explain how his "precise" orders could have been disobeyed. "I have no information as to when a payment was made...
...problem with Nixon's claim that, having learned of these illegal cover-up activities from Dean on March 21, he then convened a meeting the next day at which he urged his top aides "to get the story out." That meeting was attended by Nixon, Mitchell, Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Dean. According to the Senate testimonies of the last four, the President made no attempt at all at that meeting even to quiz them on whether Dean's allegations of their individual involvement in the cover-up were true. No one testified that Nixon had urged that Dean...
...after Dean and Jeb Stuart Magruder, the deputy chief of the Nixon re-election committee, had begun talking to the prosecutors that Attorney General Richard Kleindienst and his deputy, Henry Petersen, went to the White House and told Nixon of the extensive involvement of his aides, including Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Dean...