Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like other veterans of Watergate, Haldeman has a theory on the identity of the celebrated "Deep Throat" source of Washington Post Watergate Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. His "candidate," as he puts it, is Fred Fielding, Dean's White House deputy. As aide to Nixon's nemesis, Fielding has been on most such speculative source lists, but he said again last week that Haldeman's charge was "sheer fantasy." Fielding has shown TIME passports and photographs indicating that he was in Bolivia in late January 1973, when All the President's Men describes one specific...
Haldeman does admit some wrongs. The coverup, he concludes, was "morally and legally the wrong thing to do-so it should have failed." But then he suggests that the problem actually was tactical-"Too many people knew too much"-and that the one man who knew the most (Richard Nixon) had not told his aides enough...
...plan can be developed to handle almost any problem," Haldeman states, and if Nixon had only provided "a key part of the puzzle ... most of us would have been willing to sacrifice ourselves, if necessary, to save the presidency that we believed in." The coverup, in short, was not such an evil to Bob Haldeman that he would refuse to try it again if he thought he could make it work. Says he: "There is absolutely no doubt in my mind today that if I were back at the starting point, faced with the decision of whether to join...
...White House has become involved in a maneuver to oust yet another top-level holdover Republican appointee. He is Oakley Hunter, chosen by Richard Nixon as chairman of the Federal National Mortgage Association, known as Fannie Mae, the nation's largest provider of housing finance. As boss of Fannie Mae, Hunter has been feuding with Patricia Harris, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Largely to appease her, the White House acted last week on a HUD memo urging that an emissary be chosen to end the quarrel, perhaps by bringing about Hunter's "voluntary resignation." The memo named...
...certainly be a primary area of questioning, but we should seriously wonder whether they will bear in mind the statement made by Gil Scutti upon his January 21 resignation as the chief of Marston's criminal division immediately following Marston's removal. Evoking the "stay away" advice given by Nixon White House aide Gordon Strachan before the Senate Watergate Committee five years ago, Scutti said, "I'm forced to leave the job I love because there is no justice in the Department of Justice...