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Liddy, said Mardian, cited the 197 1 illegal entry into the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Mardian added that when he asked who had authorized the burglary of the doctor's office, Lid dy may not have mentioned the President but gave Mardian the clear "impression" that Nixon was responsible...
...Mitchell contended that he had made no parallel effort to persuade other knowledgeable officials to withhold similar facts from the President, and he denied taking any action to keep the arrested conspirators silent. Considering Mitchell's overriding concern for Nixon's reelection, his efforts to "keep the lid on," as he put it, seemed much too limited to ensure the President's insulation. To admit broader activities, of course, could make Mitchell-who was not testifying under any grant of immunity against criminal prosecution-more susceptible to a charge of conspiracy to obstruct justice...
...concerted, conspiratorial effort to cover up any of the Watergate-related activities. He and other Nixon committee officials, as well as such White House aides as Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Colson and Dean, simply shared a common view: "We weren't volunteering anything. We wanted to keep the lid...
Precisely what was it that Mitchell wanted to keep this lid on? Repeatedly, he emphasized that he did not consider the Watergate wiretapping itself all that dangerous to the President. He was far more concerned about what he oddly, almost monotonously referred to as other "White House horror stories." By that he meant the activities of the White House plumbers, notably Liddy and Hunt...
...likely to be an explosion. Under the intolerant Puritan regime of Oliver Cromwell, the theatres were kept closed for nearly two decades--"The grey Puritan is a sick man, soul and body sick," wrote D.H. Lawrence. With the accession in 1660 of Charles II, who liked the theatre, the lid blew off, and licentiousness swept high society. The Restoration aristocrats would have agreed with Havelock Ellis that sex is "the central problem of life"; for them the problem was how to get as much of it as possible...