Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with ousted Presidential Counsel John W. Dean on the case, and Dean later admitted being part of the 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...
...addition, their heart rates, which had at first shown a tendency to climb dramatically at the slightest exertion, became more steady. The improvement was at least partly attributable to a stepped-up program of exercises, but NASA doctors also suspect that the body may gradually adjust to weightlessness by itself...
Cambridge police arrested a suspect in the incident. They declined to comment on the arrest...
Because Goldwater commands immense prestige among conservative Republicans, some of Agnew's staffers understandably began to suspect that the White House engaged in a little Machiavellianism to force the Vice President to resign. This theory was reinforced by a story in the New York Times the following day asserting that some high-ranking White House officials - again unnamed - had been saying that "it might be best for Vice President Agnew to resign and allow President Nixon to choose a new Vice President...
...there is a strong and plausible case showing that the U.S. was not involved in the military's coup. Administration officials issued unqualified denials of U.S. complicity-perhaps suspect in light of recent revelations about, say, the secret bombing of Cambodia in 1969 and 1970. There were equally strong denials from leaders of the junta that their coup had outside help. Most tellingly, the CIA called the Centaur plan a hoax...