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...center of the turmoil was H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman, once the crewcut, fiercely loyal chief of staff to President Nixon, now serving a minimum one-year term at California's Lompoc prison farm on a conviction of perjury in the Watergate coverup. Last May Haldeman had fumed as he watched his former chief imply in televised interviews with David Frost that he might have saved his presidency if he had just had the heart to fire earlier his two closest aides, Haldeman and Domestic Adviser John Ehrlichman. Haldeman vowed then and there to turn his pro-Nixon memoirs into...
...Haldeman's account was nonetheless that of a key White House insider. And although he cautiously couched his accusations as beliefs, rather than provable assertions of fact, he charged that Nixon personally launched the Watergate bugging operation that cost him the presidency, that Nixon was part of the cover-up from the very day on which his re-election committee's burglars were arrested in Democratic national headquarters, that just three days after police had seized his agents Nixon himself erased 18% minutes of a White House tape that showed his complicity in the crime...
Richard Nixon regarded the Alger Hiss case as his first major crisis, and one that he handled masterfully. As President, he frequently urged his aides to read the account of it in his autobiographical Six Crises. "Warm up to it, and it makes fascinating reading," he told H.R. Haldeman. Charles Colson claimed to have read the book 14 times. "The fact is," says Historian Allen Weinstein, "Nixon didn't behave very courageously during the Hiss case. He buckled under pressure...
Price was drawn into the White House Watergate efforts back in April, 1973 when Nixon called upon him to draft the speech announcing the resignations of his two chief White House aides, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. But in the last week of July, 1974, Ray Price unobtrusively entered into the inner circle of actors involved in the Watergate drama. As Nixon's collaborator on the resignation speech and one of the aides who advised the president during the ultimate unravelling of Watergate, Price received a close-up look at the final days of President Nixon...
Mitchell and Haldeman may be out of prison as early as next June. Ehrlichman, who voluntarily began to serve his time while his appeal was pending, must wait to see whether another judge, Gerhard Gesell, will reduce his concurrent sentence for his role in the plumbers' operations. If that happens, as expected, he could be free by the end of January...