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Nixon does tell Dean to pay the blackmail. This is evident from one portion of the White House transcript of the March 21, 1973 meeting between Nixon, Haldeman and Dean. The section reads...
...that a grand jury had indicted seven presidential associates for a series of 45 overt acts in support of an alleged conspiracy, including a meeting in which the president was a participant. This occurred on the morning of March 21, 1973, and in it John W. Dean III, H.R. Haldeman, and Nixon discussed possible "hush money" payments to E. Howard Hunt...
...Nixon campaign in hopes of obtaining higher price supports, a speech by Nixon at a forthcoming milk producers' convention and an audience at the White House for milk cooperative leaders. According to the draft, Kalmbach "reported to [then White House Chief of Staff] H.R. Haldeman the pending contribution and the three goals, and Haldeman authorized him to accept the contribution." Haldeman has denied to the committee that he knew anything about that particular contribution. The report said that Kalmbach received $100,000 from the cooperatives but that the rest was withheld "because of the dairy people's dismay...
...prevailing mentality in the White House is, in its way, nearly as revealing as that of the Nixon transcripts. In the best locker-room and fraternity tradition, all the President's men had their nicknames. John Dean told the Ervin committee last year about H.R. ("The Brush") Haldeman and John ("The Pipe") Mitchell, but Magruder adds to the list. Transportation Secretary John Volpe was "The Bus Driver"; Defense Secretary Melvin Laird was "The Bullet"; Postmaster General Winton Blount was "The Postman"; and Martha Mitchell was known as "The Account," an advertising term for a client. Nixon himself was above...
Mere Mortals. Nixon's once much feared palace guard emerges as more petty than sinister. Magruder describes how Haldeman once gave his young aide Larry Higby a brutal dressing-down for failing to provide a golf cart to take him 200 yds. across the presidential compound at San Clemente. Haldeman loved to make his far-flung assistants jump by activating their Pageboy beepers, especially when traveling in Air Force One: "[Nixon] and Haldeman and Chapin and the others in the traveling entourage would get up there, 30,000 ft. above the earth, and something would happen to them...