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After the arrests at the Watergate a year ago, it was quickly learned by the Nixon committee's top officials that the committee's security chief, James McCord, was one of the men arrested and that the men were carrying cash that could possibly be traced to the Nixon organization. This second break-in had been made to remedy malfunctioning eavesdropping equipment. Testified Magruder: "There was no question that the cover-up began that Saturday when we realized there was a breakin. I do not think there was ever any discussion that there would not be a cover...
...objective, as McCord understood it, was to anticipate the plans of any groups planning violence during the presidential campaign. "Uppermost in everyone's mind at that point in time, and certainly in mine," said McCord, "was the bloodshed which had occurred at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago...
...McCord ticked off other acts of violence that had filled him-and his superiors in the White House-with foreboding: a bomb blast at the U.S. Capitol Building in 1969; the destruction of the offices of Senator John Tower in Austin, Texas, in 1972; the alleged threats by the Viet Nam Veterans Against the War to bomb the G.O.P. Convention; the continued threats against the lives of John and Martha Mitchell. Though he was "completely convinced" that Senator George McGovern and Democratic Party Chairman Lawrence O'Brien had no knowledge of the conspirators, McCord believed that Democratic offices...
Such was the complexity of the week's testimony that even the little men's attorneys got into the act. McCord had said that his own lawyer for the Watergate trial, Gerald Alch, had advised him to claim that the break-in was a CIA operation. He said Alch also suggested that CIA documents could be forged to support this defense. Alch, as dapper as he was indignant, demanded the right to make a lengthy rebuttal and to impugn McCord's testimony. He said he had asked McCord's present attorney, Bernard Fensterwald...
...sooner had Alch made his protest than both Fensterwald and McCord demanded a chance to answer. But the committee decided that it was time to call a halt. The Watergate small fry had already consumed much more time than had been scheduled, and there was growing criticism that the committee should move on to bigger game. Otherwise, it would be several weeks before major figures like John Dean, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman were heard from. Responding to this restiveness, the committee moved up the resumption of hearings from June 12 to June 5 ("February...