Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Haldeman agreed that Dean told the President that E. Howard Hunt, one of the arrested Watergate burglars, was demanding $120,000 in cash, "or else he would tell about the seamy things he had done for Ehrlichman," presumably as one of the White House squad of secret investigators, "the plumbers." According to Haldeman, Nixon asked how much money.would have to be raised over the years to meet such demands, and Dean replied, "probably a million dollars?but the problem is that it is hard to raise...
...point, Haldeman and Dean were still in agreement. Then, Haldeman testified, Nixon added five crucial words: "But it would be wrong." Those five words, claims the indictment, as Haldeman "then and there well knew, were false." They, of course, change Nixon's position completely. Instead of agreeing to pay Hunt hush money, as Dean charged, the President was portrayed...
Woven through the grand jury's various allegations against the newly indicted men was evidence that a large payment was, in fact, made to Hunt a few hours after this crucial conversation of Dean, Haldeman and Nixon. It would have been foolhardy, indeed, for Nixon's aides to carry out such payoffs if the President had flatly banned them as wrong. According to the indictment, after the end of this White House meeting, Haldeman called John Mitchell. Mitchell minutes later "had a telephone conversation with Fred C. LaRue [a Mitchell deputy], during which Mitchell authorized LaRue to make a payment...
June 19. Ehrlichman met with Dean at the White House and directed him to relay word via Liddy that E. Howard Hunt should leave the country. (Hunt had been a member of the White House plumbers and was later convicted of the Watergate wiretapping. Dean testified that he carried out Ehrlichman's instructions, then convinced Ehrlichman that it was a mistake and asked Liddy to rescind the order to Hunt...
June 19. Charles Colson and Ehrlichman met with Dean at the White House, and Ehrlichman directed Dean to open Hunt's safe in the Executive Office Building and take the contents (which included various secret documents and electronic equipment). Dean has testified that...