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President: That's why I said, 'Cut it off at the pass.' But what I was thinking there, was basically not to get all those guys pissing on each other. But Dean could go out, with probably some justification, and said [sic] that he ... told the President all about this...
...same day, as he reflected on the amount of money that Dean estimated might be required by the original Watergate defendants, Nixon, according to the White House version, observed: "It sounds like a lot of money, a million dollars. Let my [sic] say, that I think we could get that. I know money is hard to raise." But in the Judiciary version his words are sharper: "Let me say that I think you could get that in cash, and I know money is hard, but there are ways...
...demand for money. Lawyer St. Clair has argued that, in his March 21 discussion of a payment to Hunt from campaign funds, Nixon meant only legal-support payments. But the President's Dictabelt indicates that this was not so. "Hunt," said the President, "needed a hundred and-thousand [sic] dollars or so to pay his lawyer and handle other things or he was going to have some things to say that would be very detrimental to Colson and Ehrlichman, et al. This is, uh, Dean recognizes as pure blackmail...
...downtown beat were ticketing a man peddling rings on the sidewalk. Then up popped this limey photographer who kept snapping away at them. Asked for identification, the fellow could only produce an out-of-date press card. At headquarters, the suspicious cops satisfied themselves that "Tony Charles Snow-down [sic]" was not the peddler's accomplice. They issued him a temporary press card and prepared to let him go. Then someone did a double take. Hastily, Princess Margaret's husband, Lord Snowdon, was whisked into Police Commissioner Philip G. Tannian's office for a chat...
...presumed to be prostitutes, Danner gets herself arrested. At her trial the next day, the barely mussed carefully made-up liberated lady is so stupefied by her night in jail that she is unable to open her mouth, whereupon hubby gallantly wins the case for her. Sic transit Gloria Steinem...