Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to release the transcripts." Added Representative John Brademas of Indiana: "There was an extraordinary moral obtuseness on the part of these people. It seems to me? subject to the work of ?the Judiciary Committee?that there is a clear possibility of criminality by the President. The hush money is the symbol...
...also warned that if the Supreme Court were to rule that the grand jury had exceeded its authority in going after the President, indictments of seven other officials might be jeopardized. The 23 jurors were particularly impressed by the President's apparent failure to rule out the payment of hush money to the Watergate burglars. At one point Nixon told Dean, "Get it," and investigators later confirmed that $75,000 was delivered that very night to the lawyer for E. Howard Hunt Jr., one of those convicted of staging the breakin. Also, the jurors were convinced that the President...
...few?but not all?of the Watergate investigators wonder whether the tapes were doctored in order to establish a later date for the President's learning of the Watergate coverup. One reason for their suspicion: all through the Watergate hearings, it was believed that the final payment of hush money was made on March 20; had the President not learned of the cover-up until March 21, he could not possibly have approved the final payment. Not until recently was it established that the last installment was actually paid on March...
...Ottawa's stately federal Parliament building, a hush fell over the crowded public galleries last Wednesday night as the House of Commons prepared to vote. The issue: an opposition motion expressing no confidence in the minority Liberal government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau because its proposed 1974 budget allegedly failed to deal effectively with Canada's roaring inflation. Minutes later, when House Speaker Lucien Lamoureux announced the tally-137 votes in favor of the motion to 123 against*- opposition M.P.s exploded in a roar of delight and littered the green-carpeted chamber with a blizzard of tossed papers...
...view of this curt command, it would be hard to argue, as the President has, that he did not approve of the hush money. This simple order, allowing no misinterpretation by Dean, may constitute the single most impeachable offense in the entire transcript...