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...full flood. The question is: Do the writers have anything much to say that Americans really want to hear? The answer is a qualified yes. Some new nuggets of Nixonian intrigue rise to the surface. Diverse perspectives are offered on the men around the President-Mitchell, Haldeman and Ehrlichman-on precisely what brought Nixon down, and on how the Government and press have been affected. Most notably, these books provide small, sharp, almost novelistic insights into the personal struggles-some devilish, some inspiring-of individuals caught up in the scandal...
...last week learned the penalty he must pay for conspiring to obstruct justice in the Watergate coverup. The mild-mannered Mississippi oil heir had admitted taking part in the payoffs to the burglars and had testified for the Government in the trial that led to the convictions of H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Robert Mardian and Mitchell. LaRue, a former aide to Mitchell at Nixon's re-election committee, was sentenced by Federal Judge John J. Sirica to six months in jail...
Faring far better was Gordon Strachan, 31, a former Haldeman aide who had been indicted for conspiracy in the coverup. His trial had been separated from that of the convicted conspirators because of legal complications arising from partial grants of immunity given to secure his testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee. Strachan emerged wholly free as Special Prosecutor Henry S. Ruth Jr. revealed that the Government was no longer interested in prosecuting him. Testimony at the conspiracy trial had shown that Strachan's involvement, if any, had been peripheral and as a messenger for Haldeman...
Safire concedes that "Nixon failed, not while daring greatly, but while lying meanly." Then he proceeds to place greater responsibility on H.R. Haldeman than on the President for the "epic arrogance" of a White House taping system that ultimately exposed the lies. Haldeman's lofty aim, contends Safire, was "to provide history with its raw material so as to ultimately serve the cause of truth, and prevent the denigration of a peacemaker." Incredibly, Safire insists that the "dark side" of Nixon shown on the tapes was not the real Nixon...
...charges that Kissinger first had his own telephone bugged and afterward lied about it. Safire also flatly asserts that Kissinger deviously recorded telephone conversations with newsmen-sometimes belittling his long-suffering foreign affairs adversary, Secretary of State William Rogers-then deliberately altered the transcripts and sent them to Haldeman to portray the resulting stories as wrong...