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When they created the Nixon Foundation in 1969, the trustees had grand plans for building a museum and library for the papers and mementos of the 37th President. The foundation's board included some of the most powerful figures in the country - men like John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and an influential lawyer named Herbert Kalmbach - to say nothing of Billy Graham and several distinguished businessmen...
...Haldeman's expression hardened. Once Nixon's briskly efficient Oval Office guardian and a superpatriot who had publicly equated the acts of Viet Nam War protesters with treason, Haldeman was also pronounced guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and three charges of giving false testimony. Maximum sentence: 25 years...
Deftly mocking the Nixon men's language, Neal was at his best in describing how Nixon, Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Mitchell all praised John Dean when the cover-up seemed to be working and then abruptly turned against him. Up until April 8,1973, Neal declared, "it is good John Dean, good John Dean, fine John Dean. What a good job you done, John Dean ... Suddenly good John Dean becomes mean John Dean. What metamorphosis changes good John Dean into mean John Dean...
Neal noted it was on April 8 that Dean began talking to prosecutors. When Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Nixon first heard about it, they thought, said Neal, that Dean was "going with a modified limited hang-out." So Haldeman warned: "John, you shouldn't do that, once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is hard to get it back in." But on April 15 they learned that "Dean has decided to let it all hang out." Next day Dean was asked by Nixon to resign...
...boys in that band." Though Neal had referred to Defendants Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson as "cymbals" in the ensemble, Mardian's attorney, Thomas Green, insisted that his client "never sat in the orchestra-he sat down in the seats ... finally got up and walked out." H.R. Haldeman, who might have been described as first violin, was not assigned a rhetorical instrument...