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...Judiciary Committee's version of a March 13 conversation between Nixon and Dean shows clearly, as do the transcripts issued by the White House, that the President was then aware of perjury by Gordon Strachan, Haldeman's top aide. The President on that day also explicitly rejected the "hang-out road" - meaning a complete disclosure...
...March 21. A statement made by the President on his Dictabelt machine just after his meeting with Dean and transcribed by the Judiciary Committee shows that he admired those of his aides who lied to investigating groups and had contempt for those who told the truth. He praised Gordon Strachan- who at the time was stonewalling FBI investigators and Government prosecutors with denials that led later to his indictment for perjury. In Nixon's words, Strachan was "a real . . . courageous fellow through all this." By contrast, Nixon talked of Magruder, who was cooperating with prosecutors, as "a rather weak...
...ours was a campaign that looked to professionals for guidance . . . Perhaps it was just bad luck that he got there, or perhaps there was a certain historical inevitability to Liddy-perhaps if there had been no Liddy we would have created one." Elsewhere he quotes White House Aide Gordon Strachan as saying more succinctly, "Liddy's a Hitler, but at least he's our Hitler...
...whole thing up at Haldeman's instructions . . . Now there is some semblance of, some validity to the point, that I did talk, not with Dean but with Mitchell, about the need for intelligence activity." Haldeman concedes that the plan was put into action only after Haldeman Aide Gordon Strachan relayed word to Mitchell that "the President wants it done and there is to be no more arguing about it." Mitchell's response was, "O.K., if they say to do it, go ahead...
...Strachan is as tough as nails. He can go in and stonewall...