Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo, Nixon's close friend, is under investigation concerning the $50,000 that he allegedly gave to Fred LaRue, a Nixon re-election committee aide, in 1973. Investigators suspect that half the amount may have gone into a "hush money" fund for the Watergate burglars...
...Veniste got Colson to rebut Haldeman's testimony that he was unaware of hush-money payments. In January 1973, Colson said, he had been asked by Haldeman what would happen if Hunt "blew" (talked to investigators). "I said I thought it would be very bad... Bob [Haldeman] said, 'Then we can't let that happen.' " When Colson was finished, Chief Prosecutor James Neal told Sirica in a lawyers' conference that he was "more than willing" for the defense to "bring on more witnesses like Colson...
Except for this ambiguity, the tapes show that despite all of the former President's denials, he had 1) promised Executive clemency for various Watergate defendants; 2) approved the paying of hush money to the burglars and knew that this could be an obstruction of justice; 3) plotted to first make Magruder and Mitchell, then Dean, the scapegoats so as to save himself. Even many of the transcripts released by the White House last April in a televised profession of belated candor were revealed by the playing of the tapes to have been edited to omit the most damaging...
...termed his conduct of Liddy's 1973 trial "in the highest tradition of his office as a federal judge," made it clear that he does not believe this version. With the jury out of the room, he admonished Kalmbach: "You knew . . . that this money was being used to hush up these people who had been arrested." Kalmbach insisted that he had not. After listening to the Nixon tapes, it seems inconceivable that the jury could miss the real intent of the payments...
...PAYING HUSH MONEY...