Word: schemed
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Once, the President's lawyers had claimed that John Dean, acting as the mastermind of a cunning scheme to conceal his own guilt, had duped all of those powerful aides above him. In its indictments the grand jury has exploded that story, which always had defied logic, and a good many other stories as well. The result inevitably is to narrow the circle of evidence around the President. To a large extent a presumption of Nixon innocence must rest on the vision of an exceptionally loyal and subservient White House staff successfully deceiving one of the most self-protective...
...whose testimony the President's own profession of innocence has heavily relied. Significantly, no perjury charge was made against John Dean, Nixon's former counsel and the one self-confessed member of the conspiracy who has directly accused the President of being an active participant in the cover-up scheme. The grand jury has heard some of the tapes of conversations between Dean and Nixon ? and apparently is convinced that Dean's version of those disputed talks is the correct...
John Mitchell was accused of lying as early as June 1972, when he told the original Watergate grand jury that he had known nothing about any scheme to spy illegally on Democratic candidates or the Democratic Party. At that time he also denied knowing anything about Liddy's political intelligence proposals, though he later publicly admitted attending three meetings at which Liddy's plans had been presented to him. The indictment claims that Mitchell also lied to the grand jury in denying that LaRue had ever told him that Liddy had confessed his role in the breakin...
President Nixon spent this week attempting to make believe that Watergate and its consequences didn't exist--or, at least, that they didn't matter much in the grand scheme of what he likes to describe as the 1972 mandate of the American people...
...core areas specified in the report are designed to "avoid the problem of students finding that the only course available in a field is highly specialized" and to establish a principle that future faculty appointments in the department should conform to a rationalized scheme, Spechler said...