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...Haldeman and Dean were still in agreement. Then, Haldeman testified, Nixon added five crucial words: "But it would be wrong." Those five words, claims the indictment, as Haldeman "then and there well knew, were false." They, of course, change Nixon's position completely. Instead of agreeing to pay Hunt hush money, as Dean charged, the President was portrayed...
Haldeman, too, is accused of perjury in his Senate testimony. He denied having been aware that money formerly under his control and later paid to the Watergate defendants was meant as blackmail or hush money. He testified that at the key March 21 meeting attended by Dean (and Nixon, though the indictment does not say so), he did not believe that Dean had made any reference to Jeb Magruder's having committed perjury. Both statements, the indictment says, were untrue...
...London in 1966. The curtain-raiser, Come into the Garden, Maud, is a fast five-finger exercise about a middle-aged American millionaire in Europe and his vile, blue-haired wife, whose hobby is collecting titled Europeans. With a witty tenderness, Coward has the amiable golfing millionaire, clad in Hush Puppies and a loud sport jacket, fall in love with a minor Italian princess and abandon his harpy wife. The talk is frequently funny: the husband dismisses one of his wife's friends as being so buck-toothed that she can eat an apple through a tennis racket...
Although no charges were made directly against Nixon, the grand jury alleged that Haldeman lied to the Senate Watergate Committee when he testified this summer that Nixon said "it would be wrong" to meet demands from the Watergate defendants for $1 million in hush money. Many observers considered the charges the most serious implication of the president thus far in the Watergate matter...
QUINCY HOUSE--Dangerous, with Bette Davis, at 8 p.m., and Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, with Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, and Agnes Moorehead at 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday, February...