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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...
...ridiculed and despised, aware that whites would frustrate his plans, Shaw simply went ahead, surrounded by a shell of pride. He wonders where this grit came from, recognizes that his nature welled up from something deeper than race or family. He describes his own "dear brother" as "hush-mouthed. He made up his mind that he weren't goin' to have anything, and after that, why, nothin' could hurt...
...Nope." In fashion-conscious Manhattan, he would make anybody's list of worst-dressed candidates of the year. Often he wears a jacket that is either worn or torn and rarely matches his denim trousers, a threadbare tie that he bought for $1 in 1967 and Hush Puppies. His campaign style is in keeping with his dress. He is not surrounded by pollsters and media consultants. From all conventional appearances, Clark is scarcely running for office...
Into this void has stepped, Hush Puppies and all, Ramsey Clark. Ever since he resigned as U.S. Attorney General in the Johnson Administration, Clark has sought out one liberal cause after another. He has championed Eskimos and Indians, the Berrigan brothers and the Attica rebels, New York Detective Frank Serpico and vanishing wildlife. There is a joke on the liberal cocktail circuit that if Clark were told that the "nauga" was an endangered species, he would demand a ban on the sale of Naugahyde furniture. He seemed to be too much of a causemonger for even cause-prone New Yorkers...
...February 1973, Nixon aides met at the LaCosta spa near San Diego to plan a counteroffensive on Watergate. According to Ben-Veniste, one participant, Special Counsel Richard Moore, reported to Nixon on April 19 of that year that the need to pay hush money to the Watergate defendants had been discussed at LaCosta. Shortly thereafter, Ehrlichman reassured Nixon that Moore's memory about LaCosta "had become feeble beyond measure." Nixon, in turn, expressed satisfaction to Haldeman that Moore's powers of recall had "dimmed...