Word: hunts
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...aides, Charles W. Colson (see box following page). This was at a time when Dean and Nixon were on friendly professional terms, counseling each other about their own culpability in the Watergate scandal. Dean recalls Nixon saying: "I shouldn't have seen Colson regarding Executive clemency for Howard Hunt." If true, this is an outright admission of the President's willingness to consider cover-up activity...
...Dean's well-publicized contention that Nixon had discussed with him raising as much as $1,000,000 in hush money and had said that it could be paid to the men arrested for the breakin. The Thompson paper put this in different perspective. It claims that Conspirator Hunt was threatening to reveal his past spying activities as a White House leak-plugging "plumber" unless he was paid up to $1,000,000. The President, by this account, told Dean: "What makes you think he would be satisfied with that?" Nixon "stated it was blackmail, that it was wrong...
...relationship with Charles W. Colson, the shrewd former colleague of Dean's at the White House and now one of the most vociferous advocates of the President's-and his own-innocence in the whole Watergate affair. Chuck ("Chuckles" to some newsmen) Colson had hired E. Howard Hunt Jr. as a special White House investigator and "plumber." He insists he had nothing to do with the former CIA agent after Hunt left the White House on March 29, 1972, to become a Nixon committee wiretapper...
...became known last week that Hunt has told Ervin committee investigators that Colson called him last year on May 15, the day Alabama Governor George C. Wallace was shot, and just two weeks before the first Watergate breakin. Hunt said Colson asked him to burglarize the assailant's Milwaukee apartment to see if anything could be found to connect Arthur H. Bremer with leftist causes. Hunt refused on the ground that official investigators already would be examining Bremer's quarters and might catch...
...other hand, hunting is a sine qua non for the intellectual as well: "To hunt for an idea can never be fully understood-or fully practiced-by those who have not hunted game...