Word: stuart
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...coverup. The original investigation failed to turn up evidence of who had authorized the wiretapping and how it was financed, partly because Petersen refused to pursue leads involving $89,000 in suspect Nixon campaign funds. Petersen relied on the testimony of the Nixon re-election committee's Jeb Stuart Magruder at the trial of the original defendants, even though the committee treasurer, Hugh Sloan, warned that it was false. Magruder later admitted having committed perjury. Petersen also shielded some high Nixon officials from normal grand jury questioning...
CURRIER HOUSE DINING HALL, The Philadelphia Story (1940) George Cukor with Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stuart...
Colson has admitted to investigators that he met with Hunt and Liddy in early 1972 to discuss a political-intelligence-gathering plan after the then Attorney General John Mitchell had twice rejected it. He has also admitted telephoning Jeb Stuart Magruder, then deputy director of Nixon's re-election committee, to urge that the plan be approved. But he claims that he did not know that the scheme involved illegal wiretapping of Democratic National Headquarters. The prosecutors are pursuing the possibility that Colson was fully aware of the nature of the project...
...committed--is inapplicable for anything but political crimes. Yet political crimes are what the American Congress faces when it confronts the Watergate affair and other comparable incidents in Nixon's presidency. As Mitchell has pointed out, he did not expect to personally profit by anything he did. As Jeb Stuart Magruder has claimed, he did what he did because he believed it to be justified by political necessity. The political nature of these crimes must not be ignored...
Haldeman and Nixon's appointments secretary Dwight Chapin were Los Angeles advertising men. Ehrlichman was Haldeman's UCLA classmate and a Seattle real estate lawyer--while he wasn't practicing political espionage for Nixon. Barker and Jeb Stuart Magruder are both Southern rim entrepreneurs, and Herbert Kalmbach has become the region's fastest-rising lawyer...