Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Testifying under oath before a select Senate committee, McCord implicated an impressive list of people in the Watergate affair. The list included former Attorney General John Mitchell, who headed the Nixon committee at the time of the Watergate arrests; H.R. Haldeman, the President's White House chief of staff; John Dean III, Nixon's chief legal counsel; Charles Colson, a former Nixon counsel; and Jeb Stuart Magruder, a former White House aide and deputy director of the re-election committee who is now an assistant to the Secretary of Commerce. McCord, who faces up to 45 years...
...case. They want to determine whether officials of either the company or the Government-or both-had perjured themselves during any of the various hearings. Among other things, the FBI will presumably investigate seeming discrepancies in the testimony of John Mitchell. Last spring the former Attorney General testified under oath that he had never discussed with Nixon any antitrust case in the Justice Department. Yet ITT documents suggest that Mitchell had conveyed to ITT executives what they took to be the substance of talks he had had with the President on their case. Mitchell has claimed that he was simply...
...Miles' appearance was a star turn. Alternately sobbing and indignant, she seemed to transfix the courtroom spectators and the seven-person jury. Justice of the Peace Mulford Winsor IV, a plumber when he is not sitting on the bench, was so unnerved that he had to start the oath twice...
...since the Secret Service man who had dislodged him now ignored him, Cecil stopped a few feet behind the President, took off his beaver hat, dropped down on his knees, hoisted his Nikon and began to shoot. Nixon's arm was up. Pat held the Bibles. The oath rang out. Nixon...
...routines, which dull perception, but of the imprisoning past itself, body knows my personal history old man explains in Ixtlan. 'Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I we either take everything for sure and real or we don't. If we follow the first oath we get bored to death with ourselves and the world. If we follow the second and erase personal history, we create a fog around us, a very exciting and mysterious state...