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...HALDEMAN: As of now there is no problem there. As of any moment in the future there is at least a potential problem...
...Judiciary Committee's version of a March 13 conversation between Nixon and Dean shows clearly, as do the transcripts issued by the White House, that the President was then aware of perjury by Gordon Strachan, Haldeman's top aide. The President on that day also explicitly rejected the "hang-out road" - meaning a complete disclosure...
...ordered Dean to "cut off any disclosures that might implicate him in Watergate." The Judiciary Committee states: "The President said that [the former deputy campaign director] Jeb Magruder 'put the heat on, and [the former treasurer of Nixon's finance committee, Hugh] Sloan starts pissing on Haldeman.' " As the committee report summarizes the conversation: "The President said that 'we've got to cut that off. We can't have that go to Haldeman.' The President said that looking to the future there were problems and that Magruder could bring it right to Haldeman...
...that he fretted over the $350,000 shelled out by Frederick LaRue, a former re-election committee aide, to the Watergate conspirators. "What will LaRue say he got the 350 for?" wrote the President on April 15, 1973-the day when Nixon was told by Prosecutor Henry Petersen that Haldeman and Ehrlichman were guilty of cover-up activities. The exact meaning of Nixon's note is unclear. But apparently he was not thinking that telling the simple truth would be the best course for LaRue...
...April 13,1973, while Magruder was cooperating with the prosecutors, he was called by Lawrence Higby, an aide to Haldeman. According to a transcript of the tape, Higby charged Magruder with leaking information to two reporters. Magruder retorted that that was "just ridiculous," but he went on to implicate both himself and Mitchell: "I've committed perjury so many times now that I'm, uh, you know, I'm, uh, I've got probably a hundred years on perjury alone." Then he talked about his decision to "make a clean breast of things." He added...