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...HALDEMAN, 47. As Nixon's stern chief of staff, the former California advertising executive once noted on a memo returned to a White House aide: "I'll approve of whatever will work and am concerned with results?not methods." The most formidable guardian of Nixon's Oval Office, Haldeman curtly and coldly ran a staff that protected the President against unwanted intrusions and unappreciated advice. Haldeman is charged with conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and three counts of perjury in his public testimony before Senator Sam Ervin's select Senate committee...
...likely targets of the grand jury are L. Patrick Gray, the former acting director of the FBI; Maurice Stans, Nixon's highly successful fund raiser and former Secretary of Commerce; and Charles Colson, easily the investigator's most tantalizingly elusive suspect. He sent Jaworski a 40-page memo explaining why he should not be indicted...
...find out where the newspaper stories came this weekend on the Vietnam military intervention into Southern Laos," Kennedy wrote foreign policy adviser McGeorge Bundy a week after the Joint Chiefs' memo. "Those stories were harmful to us. Probably exaggerated. Makes it difficult for us now to attack the Vietminh for its intervention into Laos...
...memo states that because of the People's Republic's split with the Soviets as well as internal dissention resulting from the Cultural Revolution, "the time has come for us to resort to such tactics as would entail the minimum sacrifices, take the least time and insure the greatest effect...
Kennedy's response to the memo has not been located...