Word: mccord
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dean and James W. McCord become two heroes in Chief Counsel, apparently because they cooperated with Dash and provided evidence crucial to the success of the hearings. Dean, for example, talked secretly to Senator Lowell Weicker of Connecticut and persuaded him that his testimony was explosive, thereby pushing Weicker into voting with the Democrats to grant Dean immunity from prosecution. Dash needed Weicker's vote to form a two-thirds majority on that question and others, so the chief counsel was grateful to Dean for his testimony and his political astuteness...
...McCord, of course, is viewed throughout as one witness who started the avalanche of disclosures with his letter to Judge John J. Sirica and his subsequent testimony to the committee. With both Dean and McCord, Dash had to work slowly and cautiously, but because they finally cooperated, Dash treats them kindly in this book...
...There's a racist notion that blacks sleep on the job," Young said. "Well, that's what got Nixon, McCord, Liddy and all the rest in trouble because they forgot about that guard at the Watergate," Young said. "That's what's going to get Evans and Novak...
...woman spilling out of a bathing suit after weeks of Watergate faces squinting and grimacing under the Newsweek cover logo. In the eleven weeks before the Singles story, Newsweek had printed eight Watergate covers, splashed with pictures of John Dean (twice in a row), Mitchell, Ehrlichman, Haldeman, McCord, and, three times, a dejected-looking Richard Nixon. After all that, people were desperate to read about swinging singles...
...well-synchronized plot, but through simple momentum, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Rockefeller foundation, and Common Cause joined in the clamor that resulted in Nixon's downfall. (Sale suggests in a footnote that the break-in itself may have been deliberately bungled by James McCord on orders from the old Rockefeller-CIA network which sought revenge for Nixon's conversion of the Company into his personal political tool...