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...registered Democrat who voted for George McGovern in the 1972 election, said that he had accepted the post because "somehow we must restore confidence in the honor, integrity and decency of government and this is a major part of that important task...
...first Nixon aim was to knock down the chances of Muskie's or Senator Edward Kennedy's becoming his opponent and to build up McGovern, who was rightly considered the easier man to beat. This tactic of interfering in the Democratic campaign was approved by Haldeman. Hunt began probing the intimate backgrounds of the potential Democratic candidates. He investigated Kennedy's accident at Chappaquiddick Island. Hoping to further discredit him, Hunt fabricated a State Department cable falsely stating that President John Kennedy had ordered the assassination in 1963 of South Viet Nam's President Diem. Liddy also joined the sabotage...
...White House involvement in the Watergate wiretapping. Controlled a $350,000 cash fund from campaign contributions that apparently was used to pay the arrested wiretappers to keep them quiet. Head of a broad political-sabotage campaign to hurt the candidacy of Democrat Edmund Muskie and promote that of George McGovern. Admits heading a political intelligence-gathering operation during the campaign, but denies that it included illegal activity. Many of the other implicated men-including John Dean, Jeb Magruder, Gordon Strachan and Dwight Chapin-reported...
...didn't like him one bit. He had always seemed superficial to me. He had no dignity, no reserve." It was George McGovern describing Thomas Eagleton, and once his postelection silence on the subject was broken, he had plenty to say. As Author Joe McGinniss (The Selling of the President 1968) recounts it in the New York Times Magazine, McGovern feels great bitterness toward Eagleton and would do "anything that was necessary" to prevent his future nomination for President. Mrs. McGovern, he went on to say, had developed a "pathological" hatred for the press during the campaign, and since...
There were insinuations that the Post had played the Watergate story heavily only to help George McGovern's election chances. The Post was naturally eager to disprove that notion. Working up to 16 hours a day, Bernstein and Woodward hounded C.R.P staffers in their homes and badgered White House aides with endless phone calls. "It was like selling magazine subscriptions," Bernstein remembers. "One out of every 30 people will feel sorry...