Word: wiretaps
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...President's lawyer claimed that "the phenomena occurs during the course of the conversation-that is, not at the beginning or end"-between Nixon and his former chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, on July 20, 1972. This was just three days after five men were arrested during the wiretap-burglary of Democratic National Committee headquarters. It was also after Haldeman and another former aide, John Ehrlichman, had been briefed on the arrests by then Presidential Counsel John Dean...
...unblemished by the many layers of political corruption that involved both Democrats and Republicans and helped sink the administration of incumbent Republican Governor William T. Cahill. While Democrat Byrne did not directly link corruption and Watergate to the Republican Party, he repeatedly reminded audiences that an FBI wiretap once recorded a Mafia figure as observing that Byrne could not be bought. The theme of his campaign was "One honest man can make the difference." For the most part, however, he avoided taking clear stands on the major issues...
...espionage of G. Gordon Liddy, counsel to Nixon's re-election finance committee. Mitchell claimed that he did not tell Nixon about Liddy-who at that point had not yet been arrested-much less about his own role and that of other high officials in Liddy's wiretap plans. To many investigators, that seemed most unlikely...
There are, nevertheless, serious flaws in Petersen's record, which lend substance to some of Agnew's complaints against him. He was indeed, as Agnew said, a key figure in the Justice Department's mishandling of wiretap authorizations that has jeopardized more than 300 cases against organized crime, involving possibly 1,000 defendants (TIME, March 27, 1972). As an aide to Will Wilson, then Chief...
Dean then laid out the whole story, noting the two Liddy-Mitchell-Magruder meetings he had attended before the wiretapping and adding that he had reported these plans to Haldeman. He said that both Haldeman and Mitchell had received wiretap information. After June 17, he reported, Kalmbach had paid silence money on instructions relayed by Dean from Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Mitchell. Dean said that he had helped prepare Magruder for perjured testimony. "I concluded by saying that it is going to take continued perjury and continued support of these individuals to perpetuate the cover-up and that...