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Hunt vehemently denies that he and his wife were attempting to shake down the White House for hush money. "Every time I hear the word blackmail it makes my blood boil. It wasn't blackmail or hush money ... It was maintenance payments and lawyers' fees, the same sort of arrangement that the CIA gives its agents who are captured. We had no silence to sell. We knew the grand jury would be impaneled following the trial, and that we would be immunized and forced to talk. Just because John Dean thought he was paying hush money doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LOSERS: Watergate: The View from Jail | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

APPROVED PAYMENT OF HUSH MONEY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEARINGS: The Ehrlichman Mentality on View | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

...Watergate hearings have add ed a little to the rich historical lore of Lafayette Square, the graceful public park across the street from the White House. John Dean and Herbert Kalmbach, the President's personal counsel and lawyer respectively, strolled there in July 1972 to discuss hush money for the Watergate defendants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: The President's Front Yard | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

...room either. All of us really got off on the choreography, all that whirling and all those wild costumes. But the most important moments for all of us were the quiet ones. When those hassles with the Pharisees and Pontius Pilate and Herod started in, there was a hush in the screening room like a temple. And personally, I want you to know that when things really started coming down on you, with the whipping and crucifixion and all that, my old lady wept -wept. She wanted me to be sure and tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Epistle from The Philistines | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

...suggestion of John Dean and with the approval of Ehrlichman, Kalmbach on June 29 of last year began raising money for the defense of the seven arrested Watergate burglars. By late in the year, the defendants had been paid $460,000. Kalmbach used Ulasewicz for many of the hush-money deliveries; the two conversed from public telephone booths and used code names ("Mr. Rivers" for Ulasewicz, "the Writer" for Hunt, "the Brush" for Haldeman). Kalmbach decided to pull out of this illegal activity and did so in September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: And Much More Yet to Come | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

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