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...after Nixon claims that he first learned about the cover-up from John Dean and was moving to "get the truth fully brought out," the President told former Attorney General John Mitchell: "I don't give a shit what happens. I want you to [unintelligible] stonewall it, plead the Fifth Amendment . . . even up to this point, the whole theory has been containment, as you know, John . . . that's the thing I was concerned with-we're going to protect our people, if we can." None of those directions appears in the White House transcripts...
...controversial bargain was the one struck by former Attorney General Kleindienst. He faced a charge of having lied at his Senate confirmation hearing when he denied that he had been subjected to presidential pressure in the ITT case. But instead of being tried for perjury, he was allowed to plead guilty to the misdemeanor of having "refused to answer" certain questions. Many outside legal experts were astonished that Federal Judge George L. Hart Jr. accepted that strained version of Kleindienst's act. They were even more surprised when the judge handed down a soft sentence: the statutory minimum...
Colson's sudden decision to plead guilty to a felony charge instantly raised the question, what was he up to now? Columnists Evans and Novak speculated that he was retaliating for the unkind things said about him in the transcripts. Nixon had called him a "name-dropper" who "talks too much." The President also said that he "may well have been the triggerman" of the Watergate breakin. H.R. Haldeman characterized him as "an operator in expediency." Others last week felt just the opposite-that Colson's move was only the most devious of his many political ruses, this...
Former Attorney General Richard Kleindienst-the first Cabinet alumnus since 1929 to be convicted of a crime -stood solemnly before Federal Judge George L. Hart Jr. in Washington. In an unusually lenient deal with Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, Kleindienst had been allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of having failed to testify fully at his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Now he was to be sentenced...
Along the construction site across from the post office on Mt. Auburn St. is a brightly colored mural painted by children from a Watertown elementary school. Parts of the mural advertise banks and plead for crime and pollution prevention; among them is one which reads "Visit the Art Galleries of Harvard Square...