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Again the President fell to his doubts: "I mean, God, maybe we were talking about a cover-up???Watergate. I really didn't, I didn't know what the hell?I honestly didn't know ... It's not comfortable for me because I was sitting there like a dumb turkey...
...black binders placed on each of the 38 committee members' desks. One was an annotated index of the documentary or taped evidence accumulated by the committee staff in the six months that it has probed 41 allegations of wrongdoing-including obstruction of justice and complicity in the Watergate cover-up???by Nixon. The other binder held the material that Majority Counsel John Dear's staff presented to the committee during its first three-hour session. It amounted to a recitation of the events that led up to the break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex...
...Pentagon "cannot guarantee the success of a volunteer Army" but will make every effort to make it work. As an inducement to volunteers, Congress has approved bonuses?$2,500 for a high school graduate enlisting for four years in a combat arm, $15,000 to a doctor who signs up???and has dramatically raised military pay. It now costs taxpayers $12,448 a year to maintain each person in uniform, compared with $3,443 in 1950. In all, the volunteer force has added $3.1 billion a year to the Pentagon budget. Manpower now accounts for 56% of defense costs, compared...
Nixon has denied authorizing or knowing anything about these two elements in the cover-up???promises of Executive clemency and payoffs to keep the conspirators quiet?both of which could be considered obstruction of justice. The White House offered a totally different version of the discussion of the $1,000,000. Nixon was said to have dismissed such payments as "blackmail" and scoffed at paying it. Also, the White House claimed that this topic came up on March 21 rather than this date...
...voters, Nixon attacked by creeping "Watergate bugs." Don Hesse of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat reserved much of his fire for McGovern's foot-in-mouth campaign statements and woeful showing in the polls; a characteristic Hesse offering shows McGovern, in tattered football gear, telling a dispirited huddle, "Cheer up???we're 3rd down and 85 yds. to go." More often than not, the press found itself in that same dilemma?playing catch-up ball in a sprawling, chaotic game. In retrospect, readers must be grateful that team members scored as many times as they...