Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...burglars were caught, Gordon Liddy said that he had attempted the break-in because Jeb Magruder, re-election committee deputy director, wanted better information about the Democrats. Magruder had complained: "The White House is not happy with what we are getting." Dean tells Nixon that both Magruder and Herbert Porter, an assistant to Magruder, had perjured themselves in the trial of the Watergate burglars...
Useful Witness. Though the team had painstakingly unraveled part of the mystery, they were given their first dramatic break early in April when Herbert Kalmbach, the President's personal attorney, testified before the committee. Kalmbach was not exactly a willing witness; he refused to divulge details of conversations he had held with Rebozo because of their lawyer-client relationship. But Lenzner, with the approval of Chairman Sam Ervin, pressured him into changing his mind...
...list is still growing, but already it resembles a Watergate Who's Who-former Attorney General John Mitchell, former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, former White House Aides H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Dwight Chapin, Herbert Porter and Gordon Strachan, and California Lieu tenant Governor Ed Reinecke. All have been accused of lying at one time or an other during Watergate-related investigations. Chapin and Porter have already been convicted and others are likely to meet the same fate. The Watergate prosecutors seem to be turning up a prevarication in every pot, and the irony of the situation is pain fully...
...single witness who contradicts a defendant must be backed by a second witness or by other evidence. As a result, "a man can be convicted merely on the oath of another man," says Boston Defense Lawyer Paul T. Smith. "That's tragic. For instance [Presidential Lawyer Herbert] Kalmbach has tes tified in direct contradiction to [Bebe] Rebozo on the disposition of that $100,000 Hughes donation. One of them is lying. Basically, the prosecutor can simply decide which one to prosecute...
...Herbert Hoover founded the institution in 1919 to house a collection of documents concerning the consequences of World War I. It now functions as a research institution to study social, political, and economic change in this country...