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Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to President Bok and the man in charge of affirmative action at Harvard, noticed a few violations of the direct hiring rule in June and wrote an angry memo to the Council of Deans about it. Although he didn't directly name names, Leonard did not mince many words: "There may be some people who are still insensitive and unaware of equal employment and affirmative requirements relating to college and university hiring. Where we find such naivete--maybe it should be forgiven. But since we know the person doing the hiring has not existed...
Leonard wouldn't say so specifically, but his memo was apparently prompted in part by the appointments last month of two new deans, both white males who were hired directly in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Dean Rosovsky insisted that the appointment of one of the men, Francis M. Pipkin, the new associate dean of the Faculty for Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, was not in violation of the affirmative-action plan because while Pipkin's deanship is primarily administrative, he remains a professor of Physics as well and his new job is teaching-related and therefore exempt from...
Save Neck. Prosecutor Merrill claimed that Krogh and Young discussed the burglary with Ehrlichman on Aug. 5, then wrote a memo to him on Aug. 11 recommending that "a covert operation be conducted to examine all the papers of Ellsberg's psychiatrist." Ehrlichman has conceded marking this memo "approved . . . if done under your assurance that it is not traceable." After Fielding's office was surveyed by Hunt and Liddy, Merrill claimed, Young and Krogh told Ehrlichman on Aug. 30 that the operation was feasible, and he gave the final go-ahead...
...merely consent to them? In his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last September and again in Salzburg last week, he stated that he had supplied names of people* with access to information that was being leaked; he insisted that he did not suggest the wiretaps. FBI memos that have been leaked imply that Kissinger in his role as Nixon's head of the National Security Council played a more active part. A 1973 FBI report on taps placed in 1969 states: "The original requests were from either Dr. Henry Kissinger or General Alexander Haig (then Colonel Haig...
...according to the first Dixon memo, what the White House transcript failed to note was that Nixon had approved Ehrlichman's injunction to limit Dean's report. In fact, claimed the memo, Nixon laughed and said: "Sure. As for that transaction." Suggests Dixon: "The President never asked Dean to write a report for the purpose of giving him additional facts, but merely so it could be relied on as an excuse in the event things came 'unstuck' and the President needed justification for his inaction...