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Even many Nixon critics are willing to believe that the President did not know in advance about the political-disruption campaign and the plans to bug the Democratic headquarters. But at the very least he created an atmosphere in the White House that led zealous aides to believe that they could go beyond the bounds of propriety...
...been?so many that he had, properly, withdrawn from the investigation. Also, under his direction, the original Justice Department investigation and prosecution of the Watergate wiretappers had been lax and limited. No serious attempt had been made to find out who had ordered the wiretappers to break into and bug the Democratic National Headquarters last June, who had paid them, or who had approved the whole operation. Kleindienst offered his resignation voluntarily, but he was dismayed when Nixon insisted that his departure be announced at the same time as those of Ehrlichman, Haldeman and John Dean...
...Harvard track team, suffering from what coach Bill McCurdy diagnosed yesterday as a "mysterious cold bug," will meet thinclads from the Ivy League, Army and Navy tomorrow in a heptagonal meet at Brown...
Long before they were caught trying to bug Democratic headquarters in Washington, the Watergate conspirators were apparently getting plenty of practice at breaking and entering. During the trial of Daniel Ellsberg last week, a memo from the Justice Department was handed to U.S. District Judge William Matthew Byrne. It disclosed that two of the convicted Watergate conspirators-G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt-had broken into the office of a psychiatrist to obtain files dealing with Ellsberg. A grim-faced Byrne ordered the document revealed to the defense. Then he told the prosecution that he wanted all the additional...
Mitchell's testimony last week destroyed his previous public claims that he had never been aware in advance of any plans to bug Democratic headquarters. It is not yet clear whether Mitchell made the same assertions in his previous testimony to the grand jury last summer. If he explicitly did so, he too faces a potential perjury charge...