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...does Haldeman know that? Says he: "This isn't mere conjecture on my part. It's backed up by Nixon's own words, as revealed over and over again in the tapes. Nixon knew what had happened." Indeed, various Nixon tapes do show him believing that "Colson must have done it," "There's no way he wasn't involved." This evidence is neither new nor indisputable. Colson, predictably enough, said last week that "Haldeman's reconstruction of events may be the biggest hoax since Clifford Irving...
...Clemente, where Nixon was besieged by requests for a response. Said Colonel Jack Brennan, Nixon's longtime aide: "Former President Nixon's memoirs will be published in May." One thing seems certain: Nixon's recollections of the Watergate origins are not likely to coincide with Haldeman...
...Haldeman tries to minimize his own role in the Nixon committee's intelligence-gathering plans. He contends that he did want the committee's deputy director, Jeb Stuart Magruder, to develop an intelligence capability but only to make "simple recordings of public speeches" by Democratic candidates so that inconsistencies could be attacked. He admits prodding Magruder to get going on it and says that Nixon, in turn, had been nudging...
Contrary to evidence introduced at Haldeman's 1974 trial, he still denies that he ever saw any of the "Gemstone" reports showing what the one working bug on a phone inside the Democratic Committee headquarters was picking up. He also denies ever telling his aide, Gordon Strachan, to destroy any such documents-contrary to Strachan's testimony...
...giving his version of how the Watergate operation began, Haldeman endorses the familiar-but never convincingly documented-theories that the Democrats knew about the plans for the bugging in advance and let it happen to entrap the Republicans. Says Larry O'Brien: "That's baloney. That's a real crock." Haldeman further suggests that the CIA knew all along about the plans and may even have sabotaged them to discourage Nixon from developing any unofficial intelligence capability or seeking political control over the CIA. Former CIA Director Richard Helms said last week that his Senate Watergate testimony...