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...impeachment in the House and conviction in the Senate, Nixon withdrew; he admitted no real wrong but cited only his loss of a "political base" in Congress. In the wreckage of his Administration, 16 of his aides and other operatives went to jail; John Ehrlichman, John Mitchell and H.R. Haldeman, once three of the most powerful men in the nation, spent the fall shuttling to the Washington courtroom where they were on trial for conspiracy...
...hence their reactions to the evidence placed before them-have for the most part remained stonily unreadable. John Hoffar, 57, a retired police superintendent and the jury's only white male, generally remains stolidly poker-faced but smiled broadly once, as Prosecutor James Neal vigorously questioned H.R. Haldeman...
...week by testimony from Defendants Robert C. Mardian, 51, and Kenneth W. Parkinson, 47. Both emphatically denied that as attorneys for the Committee for the Re-Election of the President in 1972, they had participated in the coverup. Compared with the other three accused, John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, Mardian and Parkinson have been relatively minor figures in the case, though Neal described them as "a necessary part of the orchestration...
...long seemed obvious that it would have been suicidal for such articulate and once influential men as the five defendants to fail to testify in their own defense. Yet Ehrlichman discovered last week, as had the hapless John Mitchell and H.R. Haldeman before him, that exposure to the prosecution's cross-examination was equally hazardous. Unlike Mitchell, who stubbornly denied his own participation in the coverup, and Haldeman, who could not seem to recall that there ever was such a conspiracy, Ehrlichman's strategy, in effect, was to contend that he had been "deceived" by former President Nixon...
Ehrlichman survived his ordeal in slightly better shape than had either Mitchell or Haldeman, mainly because he did not try to evade the implications of Nixon's taped words. He conceded that Nixon had wanted him to prepare a report on Watergate that was "less than the truth," and had asked him to take on other "improper" tasks. As for tapes that also incriminated Ehrlichman, he had ingenuous explanations. When he said "uh hum" or "yeah, yeah" to Nixon on the tapes, for example, he was "fending" Nixon off about cover-up acts, not expressing agreement. Moreover, he claimed...