Word: obstructs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After fleeing prosecution on charges of masterminding a massive mutual-funds swindle and attempting to obstruct justice, Financier Robert Vesco has made himself about as accessible to newsmen as the Abominable Snowman. Thus it surprised the veteran journalists who had been trying to corner Vesco in his Costa Rican refuge that the first substantial interview with him appeared in the April 5 issue of the fledgling biweekly New Times-and was written by a novice, Neil Cullinan, a political science professor at Fort Valley State College in Georgia. Cullinan's coup was quickly matched by Washington Post Reporter Laurence...
Though many of the President's ideas are sound, Congress will probably not pay much attention to them because Nixon's intentions are suspect on Capitol Hill. Senator Edward Kennedy called the message a "thinly veiled attempt by the President to obstruct or even kill the most effective response Congress has yet made to Watergate."Nixon implied that he would veto the public-financing measures, which have drawn support from Congress despite presidential opposition...
...They] unlawfully, willfully and knowingly did combine, conspire, confederate and agree together and with each other, to commit offenses against the United States ... [They] would corruptly influence, obstruct and impede ... the due administration of justice ... and by deceit, craft, trickery and dishonest means, defraud the United States...
...meeting, Haldeman called John Mitchell. Mitchell minutes later "had a telephone conversation with Fred C. LaRue [a Mitchell deputy], during which Mitchell authorized LaRue to make a payment of $75,000 to and for the benefit of E. Howard Hunt Jr." LaRue, who has pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct justice, according to the indictment gave the $75,000 to Hunt's attorney, William O. Bittman, that very evening, March 21. Next day, contends the indictment, Mitchell told Ehrlichman that Hunt "was not a problem any longer...
...Mardian and Mitchell met with Jeb Stuart Magruder, deputy to Mitchell on Nixon's re-election committee, in Mitchell's Washington apartment. Mitchell suggested that Magruder destroy his files on the Watergate wiretapping plan, code-named Gemstone. (Mitchell said, according to LaRue, who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice, "that it might be a good idea if Mr. Magruder had a fire...