Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watergate tales from Nixon's top aide provoke heated denials...
...center of the turmoil was H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman, once the crewcut, fiercely loyal chief of staff to President Nixon, now serving a minimum one-year term at California's Lompoc prison farm on a conviction of perjury in the Watergate coverup. Last May Haldeman had fumed as he watched his former chief imply in televised interviews with David Frost that he might have saved his presidency if he had just had the heart to fire earlier his two closest aides, Haldeman and Domestic Adviser John Ehrlichman. Haldeman vowed then and there to turn his pro-Nixon memoirs into...
...Haldeman's account was nonetheless that of a key White House insider. And although he cautiously couched his accusations as beliefs, rather than provable assertions of fact, he charged that Nixon personally launched the Watergate bugging operation that cost him the presidency, that Nixon was part of the cover-up from the very day on which his re-election committee's burglars were arrested in Democratic national headquarters, that just three days after police had seized his agents Nixon himself erased 18% minutes of a White House tape that showed his complicity in the crime...
...sections were promptly denied; others are clearly erroneous. Yet the accusations add a new chapter to the ever unfolding story of the,nation's worst political scandal in modern times. Only two men are likely to know more about the full Watergate story. One, of course, is Nixon, who last year denied once again in the Frost interviews that he had had any knowledge of how or why the Watergate bugging began or had participated in any criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice. The other man who might know more than Haldeman is Charles Colson, Nixon's former special...
Haldeman endorses a much-discussed motive for the still mysterious Watergate eavesdropping. Nixon, claims Haldeman, was out "to get" Larry O'Brien, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Long a Nixon antagonist, O'Brien had angered the President by shrewdly exploiting a never proved charge that the Nixon Administration had settled an antitrust suit against ITT favorably to the giant corporation in return for financial help to hold the 1972 Republican National Convention in San Diego. Haldeman contends that Nixon and Colson, who had a personal hatred for O'Brien from old political campaigns in Massachusetts, hoped...