by John W. Dean
Magruder and, 89, 108–13, 115–16, 119, 126, 140, 198, 280, 283, 374, 393, 408, 421, 426
Martha and, 64–69, 71, 73–78, 83–84, 93–94, 238, 386
McCord and, 297, 305
and money for Watergate defendants, 125, 216, 262, 329, 369, 373, 453, 454, 470, 482, 506, 508–9, 511, 595, 601–2, 683–84n10, 688n27, 697n27
Nixon’s relationship with, 77
O’Brien and, 152
Operation Sandwedge and, 179, 187
Pappas and, 255, 262, 321, 397, 506–7
Rebozo and, 394
Reston’s piece on, 460
resignation as campaign manager, 68–73, 76, 78, 79, 83–84, 86, 94, 123, 146
Shapiro and, 220
Sloan and, 283
Senate Watergate committee and, 214
statement on Watergate break-in prepared by, 6
testimony of, 224, 619–25, 634
Vesco and, 302, 385, 489, 500, 556, 703n114
Washington Post and, 160, 458
Mitchell, Martha, 64–78, 83–84, 93–94, 150, 178, 238, 252, 386
Mollenhoff, Clark, 252, 254
Moore, Powell, 494
Moore, Richard “Dick,” 68, 71, 178, 214n, 272, 273, 276, 288, 362, 367, 422, 426, 432, 481–83, 494, 550, 595, 596, 620, 624, 683–84n10, 699n57, 705n141
in La Costa meetings, 216, 469–71, 481–82, 491, 506
report and, 286–87, 295, 296, 299–301
Morrison, Alan, xx
Mudd, Samuel, 473, 701n90
Muskie, Edmund, 13, 18, 89, 137, 312–13, 478, 480, 665n41, 680n10, 687n39, 689–90n6, 694n63
Canuck letter and, 165–67
sabotage incidents against, 167–68
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), xix–xx, xxii, xxiii, 21, 77n, 176, 225, 284, 366n, 420, 545n, 693n33, 695n8, 715n37
National Security Agency (NSA), 568
National Security Council (NSC), 48n, 81, 215, 216, 466, 559, 563
Neal, James, 527n, 632, 703n114
Newsday, 205
Newsweek, 161, 549, 550, 605
New York Herald-Tribune, 422
New York Times, 17–19, 32, 46, 53, 94, 136, 140, 159, 161, 166, 167, 171–72, 195, 203, 204, 204n, 208–9, 215, 216, 246, 260n, 368, 374, 460, 465, 506, 513, 515, 522, 546, 554, 566, 611, 672n26, 705n157
Nichols, Lou, 188
Nixon, Don, 130
Nixon, Donald, Jr., 302n
Nixon, Julie, 8, 63, 357–58, 547, 623, 683n9
Nixon, Pat, 6, 63, 73, 77, 193, 379n, 577
Nixon, Richard M.:
bugging of campaign plane of, 205, 239, 681n17
“can’t cover this thing up” phrase of, 93
change of staff and, 540, 542
Checkers speech of, 413, 534
chronology of events leading to end of presidency, 636–46
and collapse of cover-up, 388
cover-up vs. someone at lower level being held accountable as viewed by, 109–10
Dean as enemy of, 714n1
Dean attacked by, 551n
Dean report and, 146, 151, 183–85, 188, 189, 240, 277–81, 285–91, 293, 296, 297, 299–301, 307, 333, 339, 342, 351–52, 355, 378, 414, 418, 421–23, 431–32, 435, 446, 452, 468, 518, 567, 675n12
and Dean’s “cancer on the presidency” warning, 309, 333–34, 336, 484, 497
Dean’s daily meetings with, 240–52
Dean’s last conversations with, 429
Dean’s last personal meeting with, 427
Dean’s March 21 conversation with, on Watergate, 308–27, 393, 395–97, 416, 419–21, 435–36, 442–43, 456, 497–502, 504–6, 508, 510–12, 518, 520, 538, 540–43, 550, 555–56, 582, 584, 588, 590, 591, 598, 698n34, 703–4n120, 709–10n54
Dean’s statement and, 465
diary of, 11, 31, 94, 97, 100, 141, 177, 242, 248, 335–36, 344, 406–7, 484, 661n1, 697n19, 700n65
discrediting Dean and, 549, 550, 575–76, 583–84, 613, 618, 622
executive branch reorganization and, 180–82
ignorance claimed by, 398
impeachment possibility and, 490, 493, 501, 506, 522–23, 553, 569, 573–75, 622, 631, 634, 665n35, 699n46, 713n77
Kitchen Cabinet of, 196, 297
memoir of, xix, xxi, 7, 22, 40, 61, 94–95, 138, 180, 483, 485, 597, 618, 630, 633, 674n17, 675n12, 690–91n15, 697n27, 703n120
and news of Watergate break-in, 7–8
news summaries and, 17–18, 153, 177
number of Watergate conversations with Dean, 457n
peace award given to, 407
pneumonia and hospitalization of, 625, 627–29, 635
political crises and, 343
reelection prospects of, 1, 8, 120, 153, 159
reelection victory of, 179–80, 196, 198
at Republican Convention, 143
resignation of, xviii, xix, 60, 95, 366n, 634–35
resignation threats and discussions, 460n, 522, 538, 547, 556, 575, 586
Six Crises, 77, 248, 250, 343, 469
and taking initiative in dealing with Watergate, 347–48
White House correspondents and, 406–8
Nixon, Richard M., press conferences of, 355
June 22, 1972, 46–52, 53, 675n12
August 29, 1972, 144–47, 150, 240, 249, 333, 434–35, 444, 455
October 5, 1972, 161–62
March 2, 1973, 252–54
March 15, 1973, 274–76, 277
April 17, 1973, 443–45, 455, 507, 522
April 30, 1973, 538–39, 540, 543, 548, 581, 707n7, 713n81
August 15, 1973, 551n
Nixon, Tricia, 8, 357–58, 530
Nixon defense, xvii–xviii, xxv, 179, 193, 542–43, 583
cover-up of cover-up in, 344
Dean and, xix, xxv
and discovery of tapes, 631–35
Ehrlichman’s investigation and, 453
factual record ignored in, 344
March 21 conversation with Dean in, 420, 442–43, 520, 540–43, 550, 555–56, 582, 584, 590, 591, 698n34
and Nixon’s statement on Dean’s investigation, 146, 151, 240
Nixon’s testing of, on Kissinger, 450–51
scenario developed for, 417–18
“smoking gun” conversation and, xxi, 43, 55–60
“Statements About the Watergate Investigations” white paper in, 551, 570, 573, 575–82
Nixon Foundation, 554–55, 606–7
Nixon tapes, xvii–xxv, 364–65, 416, 481n, 542–43, 582, 585, 589–90, 593–94, 597, 603–4, 616, 617, 626n, 698n34
Dean’s March 21 conversation with Nixon on Watergate facts, 308–27, 393, 395–97, 416, 419–21, 435–36, 442–43, 456, 497–502, 504–6, 508, 510–12, 518
destruction considered, 365–66, 631–35
Ehrlichman and, 474n
Haldeman and, 365–66, 454, 474n, 497–99, 505–6, 508, 510–12, 518, 541, 620, 626, 629, 698n28, 707n6
18½-minute gap in, xxiv, 19–22, 27, 413, 653–59
missing, 412–13, 620n, 698n28
NARA and, xix–xx, xxii, xxiii, 21, 77n, 366n, 545n, 693n33, 715n37
revelation of, 629–35, 636
Secret Service and, 365, 366
transcripts of, xviii, xix–xxiv, 661n1
North, Oliver, 706n160, 711n30
Novak, Robert, 609, 683n9
Nunn, Louie, 11
O’Brien, Larry, 11–13, 17, 24, 32, 33, 46–47, 51, 67, 116, 118, 120, 126, 128, 130–31, 133, 138, 144, 147, 149, 151–53, 156, 188, 282, 353, 355–57, 373, 392, 404, 556, 615, 665n36, 668–69n3, 676nn25, 27, 697n19, 713n82
in Dean’s March 21 conversation with Nixon on Watergate facts, 314, 318
Dean’s testimony and, 399, 403
Ehrlichman and, 130–31, 133, 137
Hunt’s meeting with, and message to Dean about money, 296–97, 318, 419, 470–71
O’Brien, Paul, 138, 139, 202, 348, 349, 367, 370, 385, 391, 395, 458
Ehrlichman’s meeting with, 362n
obstruction of justice, 95, 317, 320–22, 324, 331, 335, 336, 344, 352, 354, 388, 392, 399, 400, 406, 410–12, 416, 419, 427, 441, 449, 486, 494, 507, 509, 512, 631, 691n16, 697n27, 704n123
Dean and, 317, 324, 337, 382, 411, 706n160
Ehrlichman and, 406, 411, 421, 449, 464, 482, 522, 593, 701n89
Haldeman and, 406, 421, 449
motives and, 411, 412, 593
see also conspiracy
Occidental Petroleum, 112
Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), 158n
Ogarrio, Manuel, 54
Oliver, Spence, 153, 693n41
Operation Gemstone, 464
Operation Sandwedge, 179, 187, 348, 401, 405
Palmer, Robert L., 698n27
Papadopoulos, George, 261
Pappas, Tom, 255, 261–62, 321, 397, 506–7, 511, 550, 555, 585–86, 592, 595, 598, 600, 601, 686n20, 713n79
Dean’s testimony and, 399
Parker, Doug, 631
Parkinson, Ken, 116, 138, 140, 349, 353, 373, 385, 391, 674n20
Dean’s testimony and, 399, 403
Patman, Wright, 143, 159, 160n, 550
Pear, Robert, 687n41
Peck, David W., 565
Pentagon Papers, 3–4, 18, 20–22, 24, 48, 73n, 83, 87, 91, 101, 129n, 136, 215, 293, 319, 350, 564n, 633, 666n4, 700n81, 706n165
Petersen, Henry, 10, 54–56, 80, 107, 109, 116, 117, 125, 141, 164, 172, 180, 182, 188, 224, 229, 238, 242, 327, 334, 339, 363, 405, 407, 410, 412, 414–20, 423, 426–28, 430–32, 434–44, 446–47, 456, 458–66, 468, 474, 479–82, 485–88, 489, 492, 496–97, 499–504, 508–11, 514–24, 529, 532, 533, 546, 548, 562, 566–68, 580, 593, 594, 595, 598, 600, 603, 620, 674n21, 699nn57, 61, 705n152, 706n160, 707–8n24, 711n30, 715n56
Dean and, 116, 118, 432, 436–38, 463, 471, 492, 493, 699n57
in Dean’s March 21 conversation with Nixon on Watergate facts, 315–16
Ehrlichman and, 182, 514–15
Kleindienst and, 497
Nixon’s communications with, 423–26, 698–99n46, 699n57, 700n78, 704n120
Phillips, Kevin, 72
plumbers, see Special Investigations Unit
political crises, 691n1
Porter, Bart, 103, 111, 112, 114, 115, 173, 314, 351, 400, 680n3
Powell, Lewis, 244, 245
Powers, Thomas, 670n11
Price, Ray, 380, 422, 518, 526, 534–35, 537–38, 548, 562, 575, 577, 580, 582
prosecutors using false information, 692–93n28
Proxmire, William, 677n32
Public Citizen Litigation Group, xx
Quayle, Oliver, 354
Radford, Charles, 48n
Raines, Frank, 285
Rashomon effect, 649, 719n1
Reader’s Digest, 606
Reagan, Ronald, 93, 158n, 226n, 478, 701n90
Rebozo, Charles G. “Bebe,” 1, 2, 7, 10, 24, 49–50, 137, 394, 407, 410, 414, 449, 460, 527n, 562, 622, 664n29, 702n104, 704n127
recorded conversations, 366, 390
by Ehrlichman, 366, 400, 401, 403, 695n8, 696n12
by Nixon, see Nixon tapes
wiretaps, 3, 80, 129n, 216, 224–25, 242, 284, 350, 377, 457, 557, 559, 562–64, 575, 580, 693n41, 700n75
Rehnquist, William, 244, 245, 634
Reisner, Robert, 374
Republican National Committee (RNC), 3, 5, 26, 48, 94, 478
Bush as chairman of, 126n
Republican National Convention, 125, 137–38, 142, 282–83
Nixon at, 143
Watergate stories overshadowed by, 143–44
Reston, James, 460
Reston, Scotty, 195, 672n26
Rhatican, Bill, 495
Richardson, Elliott, 530, 532–33, 537, 539, 540, 544, 545, 548, 549, 558, 561–63, 565, 567, 576, 586–87, 591, 593, 596, 597, 605, 613–15, 621, 624, 671n15, 715n49
Richey, Charles R., 48, 121, 144, 148, 608, 669n3
Rietz, Ken, 478, 480
Riland, Kenneth, 623, 717n101
Robb, Roger, 121, 138, 496
Rockefeller, Nelson, 470, 471, 482, 717n101
Rogers, William, 48, 55, 160, 196n, 345, 348, 351, 366, 394, 416, 422, 427, 436–37, 437n, 438, 445–47, 485, 515, 528–30, 533–35, 544–45, 554, 587, 699n57
Roosevelt, Franklin, 179
Rose, Chappie, 422, 484, 485, 551, 624
Rosenfeld, Harry, 422
Rothblatt, Henry, 152, 204, 209, 320, 411, 676n25, 682n18
Rubin, Jerry, 695n3
Ruckelshaus, William, 214, 224, 559, 565
appointed FBI director, 516, 519, 521–22
Rumsfeld, Donald, 158n
Russo, Anthony, 73n, 129n, 215, 558
Safire, William, 611
Salinger, Pierre, 677n32
Sanders, Donald, 626, 698n34
Sanders, Harold, 662n15
Sandwedge, 179, 187, 348, 401, 405
Scaife, Richard, 196
Scarney, Shelley, 71
Schlesinger, James, 558
Schorr, Daniel, 174
Schram, Marty, 205
Schreiber, Taft, 555
Scott, Hugh, 214, 298–300, 579, 609, 612, 614
Scottsboro Boys, 392, 523, 695n4
Secret Service, 5, 28n, 290, 631, 698n28
campaign airplane and, 681n17
McGovern and, 117–18, 713n82
Nixon tapes and, 365, 366
Technical Security Division of, 481
Ted Kennedy and, 149
Segretti, Donald, 163–71, 174, 176, 179, 180, 185, 186, 190–91, 197–98, 201, 216, 229, 234, 246, 249, 262, 263, 268, 270, 272, 275, 278–82, 284, 293, 333, 361, 368, 381, 405, 494, 500, 619, 678n19, 699n63, 713n82
Dean and, 164, 176, 180, 181, 183, 184, 189, 190, 240, 252, 277
in Dean’s March 21 conversation with Nixon on Watergate facts, 309, 316, 323, 324
grand jury appearance of, 374
Haldeman and, 163–66, 169, 170, 181, 197, 375, 376, 680n10
Senate, 179, 501n
Administrative Practice and Procedure subcommittee, 143, 159, 185, 191
Armed Services Committee, 557, 565, 572, 573, 577
Judiciary Committee, 567, 576
Senate Watergate committee (Ervin Committee), 211–18, 221, 223, 225, 227, 229–30, 233, 237, 239, 241–42, 254, 265, 278–79, 288, 296, 299, 302, 305, 318, 331, 343, 359–61, 441, 443, 570, 571, 577, 578, 687n41
Brezhnev visit and, 596, 598, 599, 606, 607, 609, 610, 611
creation of, 682–83n7
Dean and, 247–48, 257
Dean’s testimony at, see Dean, John W., testimony of
efforts to block, 550
final report of, 713n82
Haldeman and, 214–15, 217, 218, 576
Kleindienst and, 241–42
leaks from, 386
Mitchell’s testimony at, 619–24
Sequoia, 115, 132, 414, 472, 579, 597, 615
Seymour, Whitney North, Jr., 586
Shaffer, Charles Norman “Charlie,” 259, 363, 388, 399–400, 405, 415, 424, 425, 435, 441, 444, 481, 496, 504, 529, 542n, 595, 609–10, 696n13, 700n78, 702n102, 703nn111, 117, 704nn123, 138, 705n160, 711n30
Shapiro, David, 217, 219, 220, 327, 385–86, 389, 431n
Sheehan, Neil, 136–37, 215
Shipley, Carl, 130
Shultz, George, 130–31, 133, 156, 677n32
Shumway, DeVan, 209, 401
Sidey, Hugh, 204
Sidwell Friends, 408n
Silbert, Earl, 41, 153, 212n, 363, 369, 374, 400, 407, 410, 413, 435, 447, 472, 481, 491, 492, 495–96, 501, 516, 517, 519, 595, 608, 668n11, 669n3, 693n31, 708n24
Sinatra, Frank, 452
Sindlinger, Albert E., 354
Sirica, John, 106, 171, 190, 203, 211–13, 243, 265–66, 286, 326, 327, 334–35, 341, 346, 347, 351, 352, 380, 428, 429, 439, 442, 488–89, 542n, 549, 554, 565, 567–68, 598, 599, 691n21
“corrupt” defined by, 702–3n110
Hunt and, 211, 332
McCord and, 304,
341–42, 343, 371
Six Crises (Nixon), 77, 248, 250, 343, 469
Sloan, Hugh, 103, 113, 114, 122, 125, 126, 133, 134, 139, 149, 175, 200, 223, 265, 265n, 282, 283, 293
immunity and, 113, 122, 134
Smathers, George, 137, 236
Smith, Howard K., 483
Smith, Malcolm, Jr., 245, 250–51
“smoking gun” conversation, xxi, 43, 55–60
Soviet Union, 112, 452, 461
Special Investigations Unit (SIU; “plumbers”), 3–4, 13, 48n,70, 80, 458, 530, 540, 552, 556, 561, 574, 580, 586, 592, 596, 619, 662n11, 679n32
Ellsberg break-in by, 4, 33–34, 91, 102, 188, 222n, 224, 293–94, 310, 319, 325, 333, 336, 338–39, 350, 350n, 391, 457, 458, 461–62, 464, 466, 491, 496–99, 501, 503, 510, 512n, 516, 517, 526, 527, 530, 531, 544–49, 557–58, 566–67, 569, 577–78, 581, 591, 601, 668n9, 673n11, 680n10, 688n27, 689n30, 691n18, 697n24, 703n117, 706n165, 707–8n24, 712n64
first story on, 144
private telephone in office of, 191
Watergate break-in by, see Watergate break-in
Spiegel, 212n
Stans, Maurice “Maury,” 43–44, 52, 85, 88, 103, 121, 122, 127, 134–35, 149, 153, 183, 233, 238, 261–62, 275, 349, 370, 465n, 466, 554, 556, 596, 598, 604, 668n13, 693n41, 703n114
Dean’s testimony and, 399
Vesco and, 302n
Stanton, Frank, 177
Steinem, Gloria, 686n20
Stennis, John, 326, 516, 553, 557n, 563
Stewart, Potter, 77, 245
Strachan, Gordon, 9, 13, 88–89, 163, 164, 174, 184, 189, 190, 216, 234, 266–67, 284, 288, 291–92, 300, 305, 306, 337, 338, 346, 347, 353, 356, 369–71, 377, 378, 384, 392, 401, 402, 404, 406, 410, 443, 452–53, 456, 462, 464, 465n, 479, 590, 607, 608, 610, 612n, 677n32, 680n10, 681n5, 687n39, 689nn5, 6, 694n41, 699n63
Dean and, 399, 403, 443
in Dean’s March 21 conversation with Nixon on Watergate facts, 312, 313, 315, 316
documents destroyed by, 378
grand jury appearance of, 374
Haldeman and, 378, 463, 610, 665n41, 699n63
immunity and, 434
Magruder and, 291–92, 356–57, 467, 469
testimony of, 377, 382, 694n49
Strauss, Robert, 369–70
Strickler, Frank H., 461, 472–75, 486–90, 495, 510
Stripling, Bob, 158
Sturgis, Frank, 7, 49, 669n3
grand jury indictment of, 153
guilty plea of, 208
Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives (SRPC), xxi
Sullivan, Bill, 216–17, 242, 259, 263–64, 559, 701n81
Supreme Court, 77, 212n, 244–45, 278n, 371, 413, 529, 591, 695n5, 704n128