Word: haldemans
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...really think you're funny, don't you? I was gonna give you the low-down on the new H.R. Haldeman book...
...Haldeman, who is expected to be released from Lompoc prison as early as this summer, is currently insulated from the storm his book is stirring. It certainly is not, as he concedes, the full story of Watergate, and is far from the final one. Despite the claim that his aim was finally to "tell the truth" about the scandal, his book is too self-protective for that...
...Haldeman does admit some wrongs. The coverup, he concludes, was "morally and legally the wrong thing to do-so it should have failed." But then he suggests that the problem actually was tactical-"Too many people knew too much"-and that the one man who knew the most (Richard Nixon) had not told his aides enough...
...plan can be developed to handle almost any problem," Haldeman states, and if Nixon had only provided "a key part of the puzzle ... most of us would have been willing to sacrifice ourselves, if necessary, to save the presidency that we believed in." The coverup, in short, was not such an evil to Bob Haldeman that he would refuse to try it again if he thought he could make it work. Says he: "There is absolutely no doubt in my mind today that if I were back at the starting point, faced with the decision of whether to join...
Last Thursday morning, when the Post's front-page summary of the book appeared, editors at Times Books, a New York Times Co. subsidiary that had paid H.R. Haldeman and Co-Author Joseph DiMona a $140,000 advance for the book, began rushing copies into major bookstores more than a week early. Angry editors at the New York Times Syndication Sales Corp., a subsidiary that had sold Ends serialization rights for a total of $1 million to more than 40 newspapers and magazines round the world, authorized those customers to rush into print four days before the official release...