Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rate, Richard Nixon went on with every sign of serenity in being President, doing business as usual and assuming an above-it-all posture. Indeed he appeared as isolated as ever, twice going out with only a few aides for Potomac cruises oh the presidential yacht, the Sequoia. For the moment, he seemed in no mood to explain himself more fully to the public, as some of his supporters had suggested...
Coolly composed, the former Government agent spun out a tale of Washington intrigue sprinkled with specific details of secret meetings on a scenic outlook over the Potomac, pay-booth telephone calls from a stranger, an implied threat against his life...
...telephoned instructions from the same stranger, McCord met Caulfield quot;at the second overlookquot; on the George Washington Memorial Parkway along the Potomac. They talked in Caulfield's car. This was after McCord's Watergate trial had got under way. Caulfield said he had an offer to grant Executive clemency to McCord if he would change his plea to guilty and remain silent. The offer, said Caulfield, was quot;from the very highest levels of the White House.quot; He added that Nixon had been told of Caulfield's impending meeting with McCord and would be immediately informed...
...tterdammerung on the Potomac...
...withheld two file folders that, according to Gray, he considered "political dynamite" and wanted destroyed. First, Gray told friends, Ehrlichman had suggested to Dean: "You drive over the bridge every night. Why don't you throw them over?" (Dean lives across the Potomac in Alexandria, Va.) Instead, at a meeting in Ehrlichman's office on June 28, Dean had handed the folders to Gray with the remark: "These papers should never see the light...