Word: tracee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minute speech (see box) was delivered with remarkable restraint, given the circumstances, and without a trace of demagoguery or self-pity. There were no attacks on his old enemies, no visible bitterness. There was also no concession of anything more serious than "mistakes" in his handling of Watergate, and no hint of remorse except one line regretting "any injuries that may have been done in the course of the events that led to this decision." His statement that he leaving because his "political base in the Congress" had eroded sounded as if he had been defeated in some policy issue...
...back in the problem area because the FBI is not under control, because [Acting FBI Director L. Patrick] Gray doesn't exactly know how to control it and they have-their investigation is now leading into some productive areas-because they've been able to trace the money-not through the money itself-but through the bank sources-the banker. And, and it goes in some directions we don't want it to go . . . [Nixon Campaign Chairman John N.] Mitchell came up with yesterday, and [then White House Counsel] John Dean analyzed very carefully last night...
...know the Democratic break-in thing, we're back in the problem area because the FBI is not under control, because Gray doesn't exactly know how to control it and they have--their investigation is now leading into some productive areas--because they've been able to trace the money--not through the money itself--but through the bank sources--the banker. And, and it goes in some directions we don't want it to go. Ah, also there have been some things--like an informant came off the street to the FBI in Miami who was a photographer...
...This is CIA? They've traced the money? Who'd they trace...
...ordinarily have been of much consequence. But it was perceived as a vivid symbol, calling immediately to mind a much younger Richard Nixon who bragged on television that his wife wore only a "respectable Republican cloth coat." Strategically, the allegation was also important to investigators because it helped them trace the means by which much of Nixon's campaign funds had apparently been "laundered...