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Whatever the degrees of guilt in the scandal, Watergate is, of course, a tragedy for the men involved and for their families. As a friend of Jo Haldeman explained: "There is no way to measure the toll. She is about as strong as he is. She'll be all right. But it's a problem for the kids. There's no way around it at school." The Haldemans have four children. Jeanne Ehrlichman, a very private woman, said firmly: "I just know my husband is going to be proved innocent." Clutching a childhood Bible, Martha Mitchell attracted a press throng...
...dismissal of Haldeman and Ehrlichman, those two dour Germanic guardians of the Oval Office, seemed mandatory. Neither wanted to quit. Haldeman, a former J. Walter Thompson ad agency vice president from Los Angeles, had participated in all of Nixon's campaigns since 1956, when he was an advanceman for Nixon's re-election as Vice President. He had become probably the second most powerful man in the Government because he determined just who could see the President or whose memos would reach Nixon's desk. Ehrlichman, a Seattle bond lawyer who had been a U.C.L.A. classmate of Haldeman...
...pair's involvement in the Watergate case and related skulduggery could no longer be ignored. Haldeman was said by some federal investigators to control a secret cash fund, which was used to pay off the seven men arrested in the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic National Committee last June to keep them from implicating higher officials. He also was reported to have authorized a covert "dirty-tricks" drive against Democratic presidential candidates. As for Ehrlichman, in addition to his actions in the Ellsberg case, he had condoned the destruction of some files taken from the office...
...Sunday, both Haldeman and Ehrlichman asked to see Nixon, still resisting the idea of quitting. Nixon said he had no choice. The meeting was intensely emotional. Explained one White House aide: "That was a traumatic thing to do. The President had seen more of them than he had of his own family. And they had seen more of him than they had of their families...
...wiretappers to break into and bug the Democratic National Headquarters last June, who had paid them, or who had approved the whole operation. Kleindienst offered his resignation voluntarily, but he was dismayed when Nixon insisted that his departure be announced at the same time as those of Ehrlichman, Haldeman and John Dean...