Word: haldemans
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This was just what Higby and Haldeman wanted. The next evening, Ehrlichman told the President: "He [Higby] tape recorded this thing. Higby handled it so well that Magruder has closed all his doors now with this tape...
...tape?" the President wanted to know. After some discussion, Haldeman said that, according to Washington, D.C., law, they could...
...control was exercised by Haldeman. He gave his orders to Strachan, his liaison at the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, who is currently under indictment for covering up the Watergate burglary. A lot of ordinary and extraordinary campaign decisions were made through a long series of "Political Matter" memos that Haldeman got from Strachan; Haldeman indicated a preferred course of action in specific situations by placing the initial H next to an alternative...
...memo dated Dec. 2,1971, with which the evidence begins, Strachan mentioned that "the Attorney General [Mitchell] discussed with John Dean the need to develop a political intelligence capability. Sandwedge [a previously considered plan] has been scrapped." In a memo four days later, Haldeman approved a pay raise, from $26,000 to $30,000, for Liddy, who had just shifted over from his job as an Ehrlichman aide to handle political intelligence and legal matters for the re-election committee. In these and later memos, Haldeman approved such trivia as the idea of starting a tabloid for the campaign...
Several memos deal with a sensitive topic-money. Both Haldeman and Strachan used the same slang as the underworld when discussing finances. Zeroes were dropped from large sums; cash is called "green." Wrote Strachan: "Of the 1.2 fund Kalmbach has a balance of 900 [meaning $900,000]-plus under his personal control." Strachan presented to Haldeman the recommendation of Stans, Dean and Herbert Kalmbach, the President's private lawyer and a major fund raiser, that "690" be put in legal committees and that "only the 230 green would be held under Kalmbach's personal control." Haldeman approved with...