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...Nixon hesitated, much of the normally smooth-functioning White House machinery came to a standstill. Conceded one White House official: "The ship of state lies dead in the water." The daily White House staff meetings chaired by Haldeman stopped. An air of mutual suspicion and self-protection paralyzed much of the staff. Even the most innocent aides assumed that their office telephones were being tapped. Recently, a ranking member of Nixon's staff suspected that his whole office was bugged. When a superior entered and asked some questions, the real replies were scribbled on a pad and given...
...they note that Nixon Counsel Dean asked for immunity from the Justice Department. If granted immunity, Dean said, he would testify about the involvement of officials "both above and below" him at the White House. There are only three men above Dean in the chain of command: Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman, chief of the White House staff-and Nixon. Others at the department contend that since Dean might turn out to be the main architect of the coverup, he should not be allowed to evade punishment...
...free time, Magruder helped out in G.O.P. political campaigns. He worked for Barry Goldwater in 1964, served as Nixon's Southern California coordinator in 1968. After the election, he joined H.R. Haldeman's White House staff where he was considered to be so loyal that he was picked to check up on the loyalty of other staffers. A first-rate organizer, he was named deputy director of C.R.P. by John Mitchell. Occasionally, friends recall, a streak of zealotry marred his surface charm. Nixon, he used to say, must be re-elected "at all costs...
...late summer, when Watergate proved to have little impact on the campaign and the President's re-election was assured, Magruder recovered his aplomb. Even so, he had been compromised. Because his name had cropped up in connection with the breakin, Haldeman told him that no big White House job was available. If he faced Senate confirmation, he was sure to be grilled about G.O.P. campaign tactics. A special post was created for him at the Commerce Department. From there it was all downhill, as the Watergate investigation gathered momentum and revealed that Magruder had been lying when...
What preposterous assumptions. Dullness does not produce competence. Beyond the shattering moral issues in the Watergate case is the revelation that the Haldeman-Ehrlichman-Colson-Dean staff operation was, for the most part, a tragic failure. Legislative achievements were almost zero. Congress and the federal bureaucracy were systematically alienated. Trouble was rarely detected in the early stages-My Lai, Carswell, Cambodia, Watergate. When it arrived full-grown on the President's doorstep, the energies of these men were directed not at solving the problems but at ignoring or minimizing them, which in the end only magnified the difficulties. Building...