Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...saying in an informal chat with three newsmen (Rodino thought it was off the record) that all 21 of the committee's Democrats were prepared to vote for impeachment. White House Communications Director Ken Clawson claimed that this confirmed that Nixon was the "subject of a witch hunt." Rodino heatedly denied the statement, but another reporter present, ABC'S Sam Donaldson, said Rodino had observed that it was his "sense of the mood" of the Democrats that they would vote in such a way. Other observers, too, had assessed this sentiment in a similar fashion...
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...
...closed-door briefings, St. Clair spent two days giving his version of the evidence that had been presented over the past six weeks by Doar and the committee's Republican counsel, Albert Jenner. St. Clair concentrated on Nixon's role in the payment of hush money to Hunt, a topic that the edited White House tape transcripts show was discussed at length by Nixon in a meeting with Dean and Haldeman on March 21,1973. St. Clair contends that Nixon's possible impeachment hangs almost solely on whether he approved such a payment at that meeting...
...cover story to camouflage its part in the Watergate break-in and tried to divert the FBI from investigating it. He confessed to Bast: "I don't say this to my people. They'd think I'm nuts. I think they killed Dorothy Hunt." He was referring to the death of E. Howard Hunt's wife in an air crash in 1972. Colson thought that the agency was trying to silence her. Almost gratuitously, Colson told Bast that he believed Howard Hughes had given $100,000 and even more to the President and his family...
When a couple of friends who owned a basketball team came to him in 1966 with the idea of starting a new league, he quickly dropped his tax cases to barnstorm the country looking for prospective owners. In the hunt, Davidson coupled his penchant for cold calculation with a latent but awesome talent for salesmanship. Davidson, 39, makes an impressive appearance with his year-round tan and robust physique (he plays tennis and basketball at least three times a week). His pin-stripe suits, moderate Republicanism and background as a Beta Theta Pi at U.C.L.A. tend to reassure businessmen...