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John Ehrlichman, once the chief White House adviser on all domestic affairs, has steadfastly denied knowing in advance of the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. A county grand jury in Los Angeles last week decided otherwise. It indicted Ehrlichman and three other former White House aides-Egil Krogh, David Young and G. Gordon Liddy-for the plebeian crime of burglary. Ehrlichman was also charged with perjury...
...Senate Watergate hearings arid then replayed tapes of Ehrlichman's testimony to check for discrepancies. His indictment for burglary was based partly on three White House memorandums, especially a memo from Young and Krogh on Aug. 11, 1971, in which Ehrlichman approved a "covert operation" to procure the psychiatrist's files on Ellsberg. Along with his initial, Ehrlichman had jotted down: "If done under your assurance that it is not traceable...
...public is more concerned about events peripheral to Watergate than about the break-in and bugging of the Democrats. Half the people rate that operation as "just part of politics as usual." But a majority see as "shocking" the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, the suggestion that income tax audits might be used against Nixon's political opponents and-tenuously tied with Watergate-the President's use of public money to improve his homes at San Clemente and Key Biscayne. Also described more often as "shocking" than "just politics" is the Watergate...
...long had our problems," Riggs says of Priscilla. "My wife thought I ought to spend more time looking after my family instead of playing gin and hustling golf and tennis. She didn't think it was dignified. Once she made me go to a psychiatrist to try to cure me of my addiction, but after a couple of sessions I had him flicking cards into a hat. Then we spent time playing gin rummy...
...President's puzzling behavior during the week is not necessarily symptomatic of a loss of control. As Psychiatrist Walter Tucker of Boston's Lahey Clinic observes: "It is certainly natural for people to show signs of stress when they are under stress. There would be something wrong with them if they did not." Adds New York Psy chiatrist Alvin Goldfarb: "In the past, Nixon has been able to show a re markable ability to marshal his forces and to continue with admirable tenac ity." That quality has not yet been placed in serious doubt...