Word: haldemans
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...Carter's time. He has promised to keep his door open to his Cabinet and other top aides. Still, without careful guidelines, Carter's time could be frittered away to little purpose. He professes to have no need for a chief of staff like H.R. Haldeman, who guarded Richard Nixon's Oval Office door. But some old hands in Washington expect that Carter will eventually need someone to act as traffic...
...District Court Judge John Lewis Smith Jr. ruled that Halperin's Fourth Amendment rights to protection against unlawful search and seizure had been violated, the taps had uncovered no evidence of wrongdoing by Halperin, and Nixon, former Attorney General John Mitchell and former White House Aide H.R. Haldeman must pay damages...
Judge Smith found that Nixon was personally liable for damages because he had initiated and overseen the wiretap program without setting specific limits on it. Mitchell, the judge said, was in error because he had failed to review periodically the need for the taps. Haldeman was liable because he too did not put a stop to the monitoring, and in addition used bugs for political spying (after leaving the NSC. Halperin served for a time as an adviser to Presidential Aspirant Edmund Muskie). The judge, however, dismissed charges against three other officials named in the suit, including Secretary of State...
...White House staff to "expediters," give new emphasis to the Cabinet as the Administration's chief policymaking body, and use its members as his principal advisers. He has promised there would be no palace guard in the White House, no high chamberlain with the powers that H.R. Haldeman and Alexander Haig had under Richard Nixon. Instead, Carter would give three or four senior aides equal rank and, along with his Cabinet, equal access...
...image from the Watergate TV hearings and cover-up trials has already etched itself into history. The inner reality, it now appears, was very different. The conspirator who turned against his fellow criminals trembled at times at the thought of his lonely assault upon Richard Nixon, John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman. He climbed into his Scotch bottle in search of soothing stupor often enough to worry about becoming an alcoholic. He fretted over looking "too mousy" on television. Just before the hearings, he even considered fleeing the country...