Word: jeb
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Stage Set. Another key witness, Jeb Stuart Magruder, former deputy director of the Nixon re-election committee, has agreed to plead guilty and turn Government witness. Since he has admitted sitting in on the meetings in Attorney General John Mitchell's office at which the Watergate spying plans were first discussed, he is believed to have great knowledge of the burglary and the coverup...
...weeks that followed, Sloan said, he was repeatedly pressured to commit perjury. Jeb Stuart Magruder, then deputy chief of the C.R.P., insisted that they agree on a low figure for the amount of money that had been given to Liddy. Sloan told Magruder: "I have no intention to perjure myself." Replied Magruder: "You may have to." Finally, Sloan went to Stans to offer his resignation, but Stans had beat him to it. "I have already talked to the FBI," said Stans, "and told them that you resigned...
...questioning of Odle concentrated on the temporary removal of some files from the office of Jeb Stuart Magruder, deputy director of the Nixon committee, just hours after the Watergate arrests. Odle conceded that he and a Magruder assistant, Robert Reisner, jointly talked by telephone to Magruder in California on that day. Although Odle's memory of details was vague, he said Magruder had asked that the files be removed over the weekend for safekeeping. Reisner gave Odle one file, which Odle claimed he never examined...
...code word for these summaries.) Odle said that he did not know if this was a Gemstone file, but admitted that it probably contained "things which have no place in a political campaign." If it was a Watergate wiretap record, of course, that would further confirm that Jeb Magruder had had advance knowledge of the illegal operation. He has admitted lying to the grand jury in denying that he knew in advance about the Watergate bugging and helped to plan it, but he has also claimed that Mitchell asked him to perjure himself in the coverup...
Liddy told him that the plan was concocted in the office of attorney general Mitchell in meetings between Liddy, Mitchell, campaign deputy Jeb S. Magruder and presidential counsel John W. Dean III, McCord told the astonished Senators...