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ROBERT C. MARDIAN, 50. A wealthy Phoenix lawyer-contractor and a Western coordinator of Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign, Mardian was one of the architects of Nixon's Southern strategy on school integration while general counsel for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Rigidly conservative, Mardian later showed much anti-radical fervor but little savvy as chief of the Justice Department's Internal Security Division. Disappointed when he did not earn a higher position in the Nixon Administration, he said with foresight about the Nixon camp: "When things are going great they ignore me, but when things...
Indicted in the cover-up of the Watergate burglary were H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, Nixon's former chief of staff and top domestic policy adviser; Mitchell; Charles W. Colson, former White House special counsel; Robert C. Mardian, former assistant attorney general; Gordon C. Strachan, a former aide; and Kenneth W. Parkinson, an attorney to Nixon's reelection finance committee...
...accidentally erase the tapes. If so, Nixon, with good cause, may feel his subordinates failed him. This is just the last in a long string of "failures" which serve the president, the reductio ad absurdum of the conduct of Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean, Magruder, Stans, LaRue, Liddy, Colson, Mardian, Kalmbach...
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...
Liddy was so anxious to destroy evidence of his own involvement in the Watergate breakin, said Mardian, that he even shredded the wrappers from soap bars he had collected in various hotels, as well as several $100 bills that might be identifiable as part of the cam paign contributions...