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Much of Nixon's news conference focused on a crucial meeting in his office on March 21, 1973, and on precisely what he had said then about the possibility of continuing illegal hush money payments to silence the original Watergate burglars (see box, next page). He also used the press conference to explain his current attitude toward the impeachment inquiry. He yielded ground to the Judiciary Committee-up to a point and only under intense pressure...
...pivotal to President Nixon's possible impeachment, but last week a critical controversy centered on a meeting that took place in the President's Oval Office on March 21, 1973. At issue was whether Nixon then had approved or tacitly accepted or pointedly rejected the payment of hush money to the original Watergate burglars as part of the criminal cover-up conspiracy...
...that payments had been made to the defendants for the purpose of keeping them quiet, not simply for their defense. If it had been simply for their defense, that would have been proper. But if it was for the purpose of keeping them quiet-you describe it as hush money-that, of course, would have been an obstruction of justice...
...could be done, but I pointed out that that was linked to clemency, that no individual is simply going to stay in jail because people are taking care of his family or his counsel. . . and that unless a promise of clemency was made that the objective of so-called hush money would not be achieved. I then said that to pay clemency was wrong. In fact, I think I can quote it directly. I said, 'It is wrong, that's for sure...
...conflicts are clear-although they could be quickly resolved if Nixon would merely allow the tape to be played in public. By Dean's account, Nixon raised no objection at all to the hush money for Hunt and, further, admitted that he was aware that Hunt had been promised clemency. Haldeman claimed that both Nixon and Dean had concluded that clemency could not be promised. Haldeman also contended that, specifically, the President had said it would be wrong to pay hush money. Nixon confirmed Haldeman's version that he and Dean had ruled out clemency, but claimed that...