Word: taping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Haldeman was present when I said that. Mr. Dean was present. Both agreed with my conclusion. Now when individuals read the entire transcript of the 21st meeting or hear the entire tape where we discussed all these options, they may reach different interpretations. But I know what I meant and I know also what I did. I meant that the whole transaction was wrong, the transaction for the purpose of keeping this whole matter covered up. That was why I directed that Mr. Haldeman, Mr. Ehrlichman, Mr. Dean and Mr. Mitchell meet . . . so that we could find what could...
...conflicts are clear-although they could be quickly resolved if Nixon would merely allow the tape to be played in public. By Dean's account, Nixon raised no objection at all to the hush money for Hunt and, further, admitted that he was aware that Hunt had been promised clemency. Haldeman claimed that both Nixon and Dean had concluded that clemency could not be promised. Haldeman also contended that, specifically, the President had said it would be wrong to pay hush money. Nixon confirmed Haldeman's version that he and Dean had ruled out clemency, but claimed that...
There are serious problems with the Haldeman and Nixon versions. The grand jury cited Haldeman for perjury in claiming that the President had said "but it would be wrong." If the jurors had any doubt at all about how to interpret the tape, they would hardly have considered Haldeman's statement to be indictable. Certainly, if Nixon had clearly declared that the payment of hush money was wrong, even though he may have linked it with clemency as well, the jury similarly would not have accused Haldeman of lying...
...President stood in the East Room last week, earnestly recounting to Americans on television how he had told his aides not to pay hush money to the Watergate burglars. But for all these months, he has refused to make public the tape or a transcript of that fateful meeting last March 21 so that those who have questions about the incident can decide for themselves...
...kind of nature-loving and highly literate juvenile that British children can read much younger than their American counterparts. Says Adams: "I should be very sorry if people tried to read deeper meanings into Water ship Down" He was deeply distressed recently when an enterprising American journalist with a tape recorder spent two hours trying to convince him that the book is really a political parable...