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President: You know, not one bit. There's a little, there's feeling of it through here ... they're hanging tough and so forth ... I suppose he [Dean] could say there that I was telling him to cover up, wouldn't you say for Haldeman...
Then he referred to the March 21 tape: "... That's a tough conversation. Unless Haldeman explains it?which he will. [Sighs] But I think we can survive that too." Replied Ziegler: "Yeah, absolutely. We'll survive...
...Haldeman, in fact, tried later to explain the conversation to a grand jury in such a way that the President would be cleared of participation in the coverup. For that explanation, Haldeman was indicted for perjury...
Getting tax information on individuals was relatively easy for the White House aides. Haldeman was able to obtain a "status report" on Gerald Wallace, brother of Alabama Governor George Wallace, in early 1970. Haldeman told Clark Mollenhoff, then a Special Counsel to the President (since returned to his reporting job for the Des Moines Register and Tribune), to acquire the information, and Mollenhoff agreed after being assured by Haldeman that Nixon wanted it. Mollenhoff got it from Assistant IRS Commissioner Donald W. Bacon. The report, which claimed that Gerald Wallace might have failed to report kickbacks from state liquor sales...
...treatment by IRS, Caulfield concluded that "the Wayne complaint ... does not appear to be strong enough to be pursued." The same Acree-to-Caulfield connection gave the White House information on a 1971 IRS investigation of the Rev. Billy Graham's taxes. Dean sent Caulfield's findings along to Haldeman with the notation, "Can we do anything to help? ..." In a response that has never been explained, Haldeman wrote: "No?it's already covered...