Word: haldemans
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...Justice Department aide during Mitchell's early assaults on civil liberties, and he may run into some trouble soon for possible obstruction of justice with another grand jury--the one investigating the Kent State killings of 1970. Kleindienst tried to bury that investigation, just as Haldeman and Ehrlichman tried to bury theirs...
Ehrlichman's White House twin, H.R. Haldeman, was showing no signs of cooperation at all. Equally uncommunicative was John Mitchell, Nixon's most influential political adviser and former Attorney General. Says one of Mitchell's associates: "He is no more going to hand up Richard Nixon than Teddy Kennedy would have handed up Bobby Kennedy, or vice versa. The loyalty is that deep." Also among the likely targets of the grand jury are L. Patrick Gray, the former acting director of the FBI; Maurice Stans, Nixon's highly successful fund raiser and former Secretary of Commerce...
Indicted in the cover-up of the Watergate burglary were H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, Nixon's former chief of staff and top domestic policy adviser; Mitchell; Charles W. Colson, former White House special counsel; Robert C. Mardian, former assistant attorney general; Gordon C. Strachan, a former aide; and Kenneth W. Parkinson, an attorney to Nixon's reelection finance committee...
Although no charges were made directly against Nixon, the grand jury alleged that Haldeman lied to the Senate Watergate Committee when he testified this summer that Nixon said "it would be wrong" to meet demands from the Watergate defendants for $1 million in hush money. Many observers considered the charges the most serious implication of the president thus far in the Watergate matter...
...from forcing Nixon's hand, yesterday's action brought no comment on the Haldeman charges and a confident statement that "the indictments indicate that the judicial process is finally moving toward the resolution of the matter. It is the president's hope that the trials will move quickly to a just solution...