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Beginning April 15, 1973, Nixon kept in almost daily touch with Henry Petersen, head of the Justice Department's criminal division, as the President cooperated fully in the Watergate investigation. St. Clair admitted that the President sometimes got confidential information from Petersen about the progress of the Justice Department's probe and passed it along to his suspect subordinates. This was not done to protect them, St. Clair argued, but to let them know that others were talking to the grand jury and so they must tell the truth. It was this kind of action by the President, sweepingly claimed...
...notes shows that he fretted over the $350,000 shelled out by Frederick LaRue, a former re-election committee aide, to the Watergate conspirators. "What will LaRue say he got the 350 for?" wrote the President on April 15, 1973-the day when Nixon was told by Prosecutor Henry Petersen that Haldeman and Ehrlichman were guilty of cover-up activities. The exact meaning of Nixon's note is unclear. But apparently he was not thinking that telling the simple truth would be the best course for LaRue...
...Watergate cover-up conspiracy. In its attempt to clarify key points left in doubt by its closed-door staff briefings on the evidence, the committee also voted to hear Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's personal lawyer, who has pleaded guilty to illegal campaign fund-raising activities; Henry Petersen, head of the Justice Department's criminal division; and Alexander Butterfield, a former Nixon aide and now the Federal Aviation Administration chief, who first revealed the existence of Nixon's secret taping system. St. Clair will be able to question the witnesses who testify...
...outbursts did not divert Ervin. He asked one question after another about why investigators had not followed up evidence pointing to the likelihood that Nixon's re-election committee and the White House were deeply involved in the planning and financing of the Watergate breakin. Petersen replied that he had let White House and campaign officials avoid testifying before the Watergate grand jury to spare them publicity, and that he had called Silbert off other aspects of the case out of caution. Perhaps, he allowed, he had showed "too much restraint...
...Petersen said he was still baffled by the Watergate affair. "I have not fixed the motive for it, or any rational motive," he declared. But Ervin hinted that Petersen might have found the case easier to understand if he had not been so intent on serving the President. Petersen remarked: "If you mean we accepted the lies of all those people who lied to us, I guess we did. You know, sir, we were snookered...