Word: jeb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them quiet. Head of a broad political-sabotage campaign to hurt the candidacy of Democrat Edmund Muskie and promote that of George McGovern. Admits heading a political intelligence-gathering operation during the campaign, but denies that it included illegal activity. Many of the other implicated men-including John Dean, Jeb Magruder, Gordon Strachan and Dwight Chapin-reported...
Admittedly disbursed $200,000 to Wiretapper Liddy but claims he did not know how money was to be used. Through Gordon Strachan transferred $350,000 in Nixon committee funds to H.R. Haldeman in White House. Says he rebuffed efforts of Jeb Magruder and Fred LaRue to get him to lie to grand jury about amount of such payments. May have resisted the entire White House cover-up conspiracy...
...aides were involved. Accused by Gray of having lied to the FBI about whether Wiretapper E. Howard Hunt had a White House-approved office. Also accused by Gray of suggesting that Gray destroy some Hunt files from that office. Attended meetings in February and March 1972 with John Mitchell, Jeb Magruder and Gordon Liddy at which plans to bug the Watergate were discussed. Approved payments to keep the arrested wiretappers quiet, according to Magruder. Supervised payment of $175,000 to the conspirators for that purpose...
...JEB STUART MAGRUDER had it all figured out. After serving as acting director of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, he would move on to a high White House post in Nixon's second term. From there he would run for secretary of state in California. After that, who knows? Senator? Governor? No limits seemed to dim the vision of a highflying political comer of 38 who charmed wherever he went, who scarcely had an enemy anywhere to say a spiteful word about...
...strain on Magruder. "He confused party interest with national interest," says a Washington neighbor. "When you get in the circles he was in, that's easy to do. The pressures are positively unbelievable." Adds a former White House aide: "If you are conformist-oriented, you go along. Jeb didn't like to be a pain...