Word: jeb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special prosecuting team suspect that the White House received tips from one of the federal agencies and became alarmed at the burgeoning scope of Cox's investigation. In addition, Administration officials may have disliked Cox's success in persuading former presidential aides-so far John Dean, Jeb Magruder and Fred LaRue-to agree to testify for the prosecution in return for leniency in their own cases. Members of the task force were reportedly pressuring John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman, two of Nixon's highest-ranking aides until the scandal blew, to make some sort of deal...
Even for the reader and television viewer who has been hooked on Watergate, there is some value in this tidy package. Who can clearly remember what John Caulfield said to James McCord while parked in a car beside the Potomac, or how Jeb Magruder tried to talk Hugh Sloan into committing perjury? That kind of thing still matters...
Such an impasse could lead to a complete perversion of justice in the varied Watergate crimes. The Watergate figures who have cooperated with prosecutors, admitted some of their own illegal acts and already entered guilty pleas, could wind up as the only principals to face punishment. Thus John Dean, Jeb Stuart Magruder and Fred LaRue, for example, might be jailed, while such adamant professors of innocence as John Ehrlichman, Bob Haldeman and John Mitchell might go free. While this outcome might not displease the White House, it would hardly reassure the public...
...another table on that day, Jeb Magruder dined on scampi and still looked a little selfconscious. But Paul is nursing this early Watergate casualty back to full participation. When Magruder called to see if he could still get a reservation, Paul said, "Of course, Mr. Magruder, you still belong to Sans Souci...
...coverup. The original investigation failed to turn up evidence of who had authorized the wiretapping and how it was financed, partly because Petersen refused to pursue leads involving $89,000 in suspect Nixon campaign funds. Petersen relied on the testimony of the Nixon re-election committee's Jeb Stuart Magruder at the trial of the original defendants, even though the committee treasurer, Hugh Sloan, warned that it was false. Magruder later admitted having committed perjury. Petersen also shielded some high Nixon officials from normal grand jury questioning...