Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aides were concocting "scenarios" to isolate the President from Watergate, he told Dean: "John, tell the truth. That is the thing I've told everybody around here." A day later, the President and Haldeman were trying to recollect what happened when Dean told Nixon that Hunt was demanding hush money...
...Nixon order the payment of hush money to E. Howard Hunt? One of the reasons that Dean laid out the cover-up for Nixon on March 21 was that at least one of the jailed Watergate seven was escalating his money demand for keeping silent. The immediate problem was a fresh request for $120,000 by Hunt, the CIA alumnus and White House consultant who had pleaded guilty to break-in and bugging charges. Dean did not know how to meet the urgent request. Hunt was threatening to tell about some of his preWatergate clandestine activities for the White House...
...minute Morning News and an hour-long special that night to the transcripts. In both broadcasts the network made remarkable use of clips from the Watergate hearings and past presidential speeches. Viewers were treated to videotapes of the President and H.R. Haldeman last summer denying that "hush money" had been authorized for Watergate defendants and videotapes of John Dean testifying to the contrary before the Ervin committee last June. Then Dan Rather read a Nixon remark to Dean from the transcripts: "Just looking at the immediate problem, don't you think you have to handle [E. Howard] Hunt...
Community groups are apparently setting up grounds for an appeal. A vote of confidence in the library from Maguire will bring cries of a buy-off, political dealings, hush money, or whatever else the post-Watergate mind can dream up. And if the firm goes against the library, the community will stay silent, perhaps coming to watch the burial. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), who calls the shots for the Library Corporation, is unlikely to risk any political gallywagging to extricate the library from that messy predicament...
...Dean's credibility on the basis of tape transcripts and summaries shown to him by Nixon. The failure of the White House to make the same information public disturbs Scott. His associates worry that he may have been misled by the one-week discrepancy in Dean's testimony about hush money, perhaps having seen a transcript in which no such discussion appeared. As for giving the Rodino committee what it wants, Scott, too, is opposed to "fishing expeditions," but he does not believe that the committee is on one. Noting White House objections to anyone backing a truck...