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...read of Richard Kleindienst's loss of composure at his sentencing [June 17], I realized that all these men, including Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean, Magruder and even possibly Colson, were not the over-zealous corrupters of the office of the presidency. Rather they were the idealistic dupes of a corrupt, embittered President intent upon the political and financial destruction of all his imagined enemies...
Omitted from the list but cited as potential witnesses were four men also requested by St. Clair: former Attorney General John Mitchell; former White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman; William O. Bittman, former lawyer for convicted Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt; and Paul L. O'Brien, a lawyer for Nixon's re-election committee. The fifth member of the backup list is Charles W. Colson, who has pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in the Ellsberg burglary case (see following stories). He is not one of the witnesses whom St. Clair wants the committee to call. Although...
...tapes. Now he can pick Nixon's and other voices out of the tangles. He is fascinated that the President becomes starkly coherent when he is angry, at other times lapses into mushy talk. John Dean has a voice that cuts through like a buzz saw -evenly, consistently. Haldeman and Ehrlichman talk of people as if they were numbers, totally expendable. Mezvinsky strains to pick up a strand of concern for the national interest among these men. They talk about saving themselves, each other, about "modified limited hangout," about p.r. "But they never mention what is best...
...Columnists Evans and Novak speculated that he was retaliating for the unkind things said about him in the transcripts. Nixon had called him a "name-dropper" who "talks too much." The President also said that he "may well have been the triggerman" of the Watergate breakin. H.R. Haldeman characterized him as "an operator in expediency." Others last week felt just the opposite-that Colson's move was only the most devious of his many political ruses, this one designed ultimately to exonerate the President...
Colson apparently satisfied Nixon's yen for macho operators. He was one of those who talked of "playing hardball" for keeps, and hostile outsiders were not his only targets. He, along with Haldeman, cracked down on more genteel staffers like Communications Director Herb Klein. Though a Nixon friend for more than 20 years, Klein finally resigned. Everything Contrived. His most important role was as a resourceful if unscrupulous political operator. Colson took on the tough jobs for the President. He leaked damaging or misleading information to the press about people who criticized the President, had young men hired...