Word: haldemans
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...measures to reduce the budget for the President's Domestic Council and to require congressional approval of security improvements for the President's private homes. "Since the time of Socrates, politics has been the art of compromise," House Majority Leader Thomas P. O'Neill observed. "When Haldeman and Ehrlichman were running the White House, the President treated Congress like a stepchild. Mel Laird is over there...
...there in the witness chair, which had been occupied so recently by Dean, Ehrlichman, Haldeman and all the rest, sat Henry Kissinger, resplendent in a diplomatic dark blue suit, his brown hair and brown-rimmed glasses gleaming in the TV lights...
...replayed, so far as anyone knows, although former White House Aide Alexander Butterfield told the Ervin committee that he occasionally borrowed some of the tapes and sampled them to make sure the system was operating properly. In addition, both the President and former White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman have said that they have listened to some of the taped Watergate conversations...
...President's explanations of Watergate have corresponded closely with those of his closest former aides, John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman, and in most respects with those of former Attorney General John Mitchell. Thus it is not surprising that many people believe that these men were lying too (see chart). Indeed, the percentage of people who think that Mitchell was lying increased after the Nixon press conference from 41% to 56%, despite one answer in which the President supported Mitchell's testimony. There would seem to be a paradox, however, in the fact that many also disbelieve John Dean...
ISOLATIONISM BECOMES SEMI-RESPECTABLE. When Attorney John Wilson, who represented John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman at the Watergate hearings, called himself a "little American," he was not necessarily being insulting. These days, many Americans prefer that reduced image to the earlier strutting one. Isolationism is no longer a dirty word, as it was two decades ago, though it is not yet an altogether respectable one. John Kennedy's stirring inaugural pledge: "We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty," seems...