Word: haldemans
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...servant's heart for Nixon when it comes to power and ideas. He has been willing to subject himself to the scorn of his academic peers (after the Cambodian invasion) and serve the President with a total loyalty that is matched inside the White House only by H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler and Kissinger's own deputy on the National Security Council, General Alexander Haig. Once, after listening to department spokesmen advocating their parochial concerns before the National Security Council, Kissinger stalked out of the room, grumbling that "not a goddamned one of them except the President...
Although there are plans to trim the White House staff by half, its top operators will stay on the job. H.R. Haldeman will remain as Assistant to the President, chief of the White House staff and policy coordinator. His second in command, John Ehrlichman, will continue to preside over the Domestic Council, which is handling such problems as drug abuse, crime, health research and the energy crisis-a matter of top priority in the second term. Ehrlichman is in the midst of compiling a report on the subject...
...resignation demands, sent under the name of Nixon's chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, were blunt: "The President has requested that you forward to him an indication of your personal plans or preferences regarding your possible service in the Nixon Administration. This should be accompanied by your pro forma letter of resignation to become effective at the pleasure of the President." The purpose, declared White House Special Counsel Harry Dent, is "to cut back and sharpen up. There's going to be a lot of change. The President is the quarterback...
...hard evidence could be developed to support a charge by the Washington Post that H.R. Haldeman, the White House chief of staff, was one of those with control over a fund that paid for spying and disruption...
...allegation about Haldeman drew heated and specific denials. "At no time has Bob had any tie whatever to the funds," MacGregor said. Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler accused the Post of "blatant character assassination." The Post story ostensibly was based on a grand jury appearance by Hugh W. Sloan, former treasurer of C.R.P. James Stoner, a lawyer representing Sloan, denied that his client had made any such statement. Further, TIME learned, Sloan had not mentioned Haldeman in his statement to the FBI; presumably Sloan's remarks to the grand jury were no different...