Word: jeb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Attorney General, who was later to head the re-election campaign. But in February, Dean said, Strachan began stepping up efforts "to get some information." Dean said that he believed Haldeman, who was Strachan's boss, had assumed that Liddy's operation was "proper." In any case, Dean said, Jeb Magruder took Strachan's message "as a signal to probably go to Mitchell and to say, 'They are pushing us like crazy for this from the White House.' And so Mitchell probably puffed on his pipe and said, 'Go ahead,' and never really reflected on what it was all about...
...Record. Nixon's aides sometimes included imaginary press reaction as part of their scenarios. On April 14, 1973, Ehrlichman sketched what he thought might be "the newsmagazine story for next Monday" if he were to present Nixon with a report naming John Mitchell and Jeb Stuart Magruder as ringleaders in the Watergate breakin. Ehrlichman suggested that the story might say: "The President then dispatched so and so to do this and that ... Charges of cover-up by the White House were materially dispelled by the diligent efforts of the President and his aides." The story obviously pleased Nixon...
...some fresh device or attempt to avoid just that. His disclosures on April 16 seem to have come only because so many of the conspirators were talking to the Watergate prosecutors. Clearly, the cover-up was going to be exploded with or without his acting. When he learned that Jeb Stuart Magruder, deputy director of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, had gone to the prosecutors and changed his earlier perjured story, Nixon asked almost pathetically: "What got Magruder to talk? I want to take the credit for that...
Prentke was captain of the Princeton lights ("We beat Harvard my senior year," he says with pride) and coached at Jeb Stuart High School and Georgetown before coming to Harvard Law School and assuming the freshman coaching reins...
...Dwight Chapin, Nixon's former appointments secretary, is scheduled to be sentenced in the U.S. District Court on his two-count perjury conviction. Jeb Stuart Magruder, former Nixon re-election committee deputy di rector, has asked to be sentenced about this time. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the cover-up last August...