Word: obstructive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JOHN W. DEAN III, 36, chief White House counsel and a major Watergate prosecution witness. Pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to obstruct justice and to defraud the U.S. in the Watergate coverup; now serving a one-to-four-year prison sentence...
...Veniste wasted no time in grappling with the question on everyone's mind: the complicity of Nixon, who was not in court and is safe from prosecution because of his pardon. The prosecutor, in effect, pronounced Nixon guilty, contending that the conspiracy to obstruct justice had "involved the participation of even the President himself...
...tape was to force Nixon's resignation because it clearly demonstrated how he had tried to obstruct the investigation of Watergate. When he heard about the tape, said Ford, he was "stunned." For months he had been saying that the President was not guilty of any impeachable offense...
...agents arrested two white men on a civil rights violation for their part in a mob attack on a lone black man the previous week. Three others, found with Molotov cocktails in their car, were charged by the agency with conspiracy to obstruct a federal court order. At Hyde Park High School, six white students were beaten and one stabbed in a clash among teenagers. That ugly incident prompted Republican Governor Francis Sargent to call up 450 National Guardsmen, who were stationed in armories in the event local and state police needed help. Democratic Mayor Kevin White was not consulted...
...domestic-policy boss. Now Ehrlichman's lawyers were expected to claim that Haldeman had worked deviously with Nixon to mislead their client about some of the 45 overt acts cited by the prosecution as part of a conspiracy to "commit offenses against the United States" and to obstruct justice. Mitchell, who never really trusted the palace pair, had learned from the Watergate transcripts that they had plotted with Nixon to make him the scapegoat in the 1972 wiretap-burglary of Democratic National Committee headquarters...