Word: lompoc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clad in blue jeans and toting a brown paper bag filled with his belongings, H.R. Haldeman said farewell to jail last week. Having served 18 months in federal prison in Lompoc, Calif., for his part in the Watergate coverup, Richard Nixon's former chief of staff was paroled in time for Christmas. "This is generally considered a special time of the year to rejoice, and it sure is for me," said Haldeman. Two days later, John Mitchell, the last of the Watergate gang still behind bars, was permitted a five-day Christmas furlough...
...center of the turmoil was H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman, once the crewcut, fiercely loyal chief of staff to President Nixon, now serving a minimum one-year term at California's Lompoc prison farm on a conviction of perjury in the Watergate coverup. Last May Haldeman had fumed as he watched his former chief imply in televised interviews with David Frost that he might have saved his presidency if he had just had the heart to fire earlier his two closest aides, Haldeman and Domestic Adviser John Ehrlichman. Haldeman vowed then and there to turn his pro-Nixon memoirs into...
Haldeman, who is expected to be released from Lompoc prison as early as this summer, is currently insulated from the storm his book is stirring. It certainly is not, as he concedes, the full story of Watergate, and is far from the final one. Despite the claim that his aim was finally to "tell the truth" about the scandal, his book is too self-protective for that...
...last indicted Watergate figure to go to jail. His crimes: perjury, obstructing justice and conspiracy. Only one day earlier, former White House Chief of Staff H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman, who had been convicted of the same offenses and received the same punishment, surrendered to the federal camp at Lompoc, Calif...
Haldeman was assigned last week to general maintenance work in Lompoc's power plant. His eight-hour shift begins at 7:50 a.m. Mitchell must go through an orientation week before receiving his assignment, but is expected to be given clerical duties in the prison where his color photograph was once prominently displayed beside Nixon's. The wardens in the two institutions insist that neither man will receive special treatment, but Mitchell was routed away from the minimum security camp at Allenwood, Pa., where he normally would have gone. Reason: Allenwood is now overcrowded, and federal officials feared...