All the President's Men
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* Several weeks later, in a post-trial hearing, Sirica would say flatly that he didn’t believe Sloan had been truthful. But he had picked on the wrong person. Sloan was the one CRP witness who had cooperated fully with the investigation. Sirica didn’t ask a single question of Magruder or Bart Porter, the CRP scheduling director. Both would later acknowledge committing perjury at the trial.
* The Los Angeles Times had reported earlier that Liddy had suggested to White House colleagues that the New York Times be wiretapped to learn how it obtained the Pentagon Papers. According to the L.A. Times account, Liddy’s suggestion had been dismissed out of hand on grounds that he was either crazy or kidding.
* This conversation with Woodward was on background, but Senator Ervin later gave permission to be quoted in this book.
* A civil-service ranking. The grades run from GS-1 to GS-18.
* Another apparent indication of the seriousness with which the Nixon forces viewed the threat of a Kennedy candidacy had come to the reporters about one month earlier. Woodward received a call from a woman who said she and a friend had bet an expensive dinner on whether Howard Hunt had been arrested inside the Watergate. He hadn’t, which meant that the woman had won the bet; she invited Woodward to share the dinner. He declined.
About 10 days later, the woman visited him in the office. A retired Army major had told her that in March of 1972, at a Republican campaign headquarters in the Washington area, “he saw two campaign commercial spots that had Teddy Kennedy with a buxom blonde sitting on his lap. The woman was spliced or dubbed in.” The woman said the retired major’s name was Morrison J. Hosley and that he owned a general store in upstate New York.
The next day, Woodward reached Hosley by phone: “Yeah, I saw some cuts about seven months ago that were to be shown in the last 10 days of the campaign, if Kennedy were on the ticket. . . . The cuts looked dubbed. There was no realness to them; you had to put it together in your mind like the anti-Goldwater ads in ‘64—the ones showing a child walking in the grass and then shifting to a nuclear explosion. Kennedy was shown speaking and then there would be this big-breasted woman on the screen. It would make good TV. . . . But I’m not going to tell you if I saw them in a Republican headquarters or not. You’d better drop it.”
Woodward called him back several days later, and was told, “I’m going to say I never told you anything, that it wasn’t me who said there is a doctored film. Your source has gone dry.”
Then Bernstein tried.
“What I saw, that’s history,” Hosley said. “I saw a print of it, but maybe I don’t want you to have that information.”
* Stephen Sachs, the attorney for Gray, told Woodward in early 1974 that the suggestion that Gray had pressured or blackmailed the President was “outrageously false.” “He [Gray] went to the White House expecting not to get the job,” Sachs said. “Nixon told him that he should be as ruthless as Hoover in stopping leaks and be aggressive in the use of polygraphs [lie detectors]. . . .” Sachs said that pressuring the White House was “not the way Gray handled himself with those guys. It was plain fear most of the time. . . . Now it makes perfect sense that some of those guys down there would think he might be pressuring because that’s the way they operate, but not Gray.”
* In late 1973, John Dean acknowledged that he had destroyed the notebooks, which he had found the previous January in the President’s personal financial file. The White House said, “The President did not know the notebooks were in his estate file,” and declined further comment.
* Sloan did say, however, that he had been asked the relevant questions about secret cash when he had testified, a few weeks previously, before a federal grand jury in New York City that was investigating the cash contribution to CRP by Robert L. Vesco, an international financier and accused swindler. Vesco’s gift of $200,000 in $100 bills was delivered to the committee in a black attaché case. It had been added to the cash fund in Stans’ safe, and had helped finance the Watergate operation and other undercover activities.
* The remark referred to Nixon’s famous Checkers speech in 1952, when he was running for Vice President. In the speech, he defended his campaign finances and a secret fund.
* Before the Senate Watergate committee, Gray corrected this. He said then that he had kept the files at his Connecticut home for nearly six months, and had burned them with the Christmas trash in December 1972.
* John J. Caulfield, a former New York City policeman, was a White House undercover agent and investigator.
† Richard M. Helms and General Vernon A. Walters were the director and deputy director of the CIA.
* In less than two months, Best would get a new client—Vice President Spiro T. Agnew—and would successfully bargain Agnew’s office away to keep him out of jail.
Index
ABC (American Broadcasting Company), Haldeman interview by, 302
Abplanalp, Robert, 334
Address books of burglars, 22, 24, 237
Agnew, Spiro T., 81, 169
lawyer of, 327n
on Washington Post, 197
Air Force, U.S., anti-radical and censorship plans of, 23
Alexander, J. D., 24
Allen, Robert H., 53–55
Anderson, Jack, 112n, 114, 133, 215, 233, 301
ITT memo published by, 255–56
Anti-war demonstrators
provocateurs vs., 20, 151
Sussman’s research on, 51–52
Arlington (Mass.), 165
Ashbrook, John, 133
Atlantic magazine, 91
Bachinski, Eugene, 22, 23
Bagdikian, Ben, 192
Baker, Howard, 280, 318, 321
Baldwin, Alfred C., III, 65, 114
L.A. Times story on, 108–11, 222, 225
“Ballot security,” 28
Barker, Bernard L., 19, 266
Caddy and, 17–18
guilty plea by, 233–35
indictment of, 335
money given to, 36–37, 41–44, 52–56
payments after Watergate to, 58, 233
White House calls by, 35–36, 38, 216
Barker, Karlyn, 126
Barrick, Paul E., 48
Beard, Dita, 252, 255–57
Beard, Robert, 256–57
“Beaver Patrol,” 170
Belsen, James A., 18
Bennett, Robert (Hughes’ representative), 256
Bennett, Robert F., 25
Berger, Marilyn, 136–41
Best, Judah, 327
Bible, Paul, 119
Bierbower, James J., 293
Bittman, William O., 34, 232, 272–273, 327
Black Operation, 115
Boca Raton (Fla.), First Bank and Trust Co. of, 41–42
“Bookkeeper” (informant), 63–70, 74–76, 78, 82, 83, 85, 96, 98, 109, 212
Bradlee, Benjamin C., 33, 52, 62, 89, 109, 110, 182n, 194–95, 200, 204, 218, 238, 254, 274
background of, 101–2
Canuck Letter and, 137, 139, 141–142, 285–86
Colson’s attack on, 205
Dean’s charges and, 319–21
grand-jury questioning approved by, 210
Haldeman-Dean resignations and, 289, 299, 310
Haldeman fund-control story and, 179–80, 189, 191–92
on interviews of witnesses, 226–27
Kissinger interview and, 315–16
McCord’s testimony corroborated by, 280
MacGregor’s press release and, 165–66
Mitchell story authorized by, 102–3, 106–7, 108
reporters’ sources desired by, 145–146
and subpoena for Bernstein, 260
on tapes story, 332
Ziegler on, 186
Brady, Bill, 106, 107, 108
Bremer, Arthur, 202
proposed break-in of apartment of, 326–30
Brill, Theodore F., 262–65
Broder, Dave, 28, 136–37
Brookings Institution, proposed burglary of, 324–25
Buchanan, Patrick J., 155, 286–87
Butterfield, Alexander, 196, 214, 330–332
Butz, Tim, 262
Byrd, Robert, 271
Byrne, Matthew, 307, 313
Caddy, Douglas, at preliminary hearing, 16–17
Campbell, Donald E., 230
Campbell, John, 216, 217
Cannon, Lou, 281
Canossa incident, 231
Canuck Letter, 127–29, 134, 136–42, 144, 148, 285–86, 328
Cassidento, John, 109
Caulfield, John J., 318, 324–25
Central Intelligence Agency, see CIA
Chapin, Dwight, 125–29, 206, 214
background of, 155, 157
Haldeman and, 170, 196
indictment of, 335
Nixon’s confidence in, 162
Segretti and, 150, 152, 154–56, 159, 161, 167–69, 171, 185, 196, 202–3, 273–74
Checkers speech, 290n
Chennault, Anna, 14
Chenow, Kathleen, 215–17, 220n, 258
Chicago Tribune, 133, 192
Chotiner, Murray, 28, 29, 100
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 73
Black Operation of, 115
Hunt and, 25, 328
Martinez and, 234
McCord and, 18
surveillance by, 317, 318
Clawson, Ken W., 32, 35, 81
on Bremer, 326
Canuck Letter written by, 137–42, 144, 285–86, 328
on Hunt, 24–25
Collins, James, 42
Colson, Charles W., 29, 30, 99, 174, 213, 217, 298, 312
alerts Nixon on cover-up, 303–4
Bremer break-in proposed by, 326–330
Brookings Institution burglary pro-posed by, 324–25
Dean and, 301, 303–4
Dita Beard case and, 255–57
Haldeman and, 171
Hunt and, 24–25, 32, 133, 237, 252, 326–30
indictments of, 335
Mitchell’s opinion of, 300
Nixon’s continued relationship with, 335
post-election speech by, 204–5
on “shoving it” to the Washington Post, 220–21
Watergate role of, 244–46, 301, 328
as White House “hatchet man,” 24, 25, 27
Committee for the Re-election of the President, see CRP
Cox, Archibald, 324, 333
Cronkite, Walter, Mankiewicz impersonated in call to, 147n
CRP (Committee for the Re-electionof the President), 29
college spies recruited by, 263–65
Democratic damage suit against, 26, 49, 58
FBI investigation of, 59–62, 78, 82, 87, 88, 131
GAO audits of, 46–48, 56, 265
illegal corporate contributions to, 335
McCord’s employment with, 20, 21
MacGregor as successor to Mitchell on, 45
Mitchell’s resignation from, 30, 60, 92, 133
November Group and, 133
phony support of Haiphong mining created by, 265–66
public-relations director of, see Shumway, Devan L.
records destroyed at, 67, 83, 87, 88, 91, 96–97
secret fund of, see Secret fund
security system of, 58
subpoenas issued by, 260, 268–69, 274
Vesco’s contribution to, 284n
as White House-controlled group, 85
Cuban exiles
Haiphong mining supported by, 266
Watergate burglary attributed to, 34
Dahlberg, Kenneth H., cashier’s check of, 41–47, 56
Dardis, Martin, 36–41, 53–55, 70
Dash, Samuel, 330
McCord interviewed by, 276
Dean, John W., III, 184, 203
charges made by, 295–308, 312, 318–21
Colson’s proposed fire vetoed by, 324–25
FBI White House reports and, 205, 216–17
fired by Nixon, 309
first implicated in Watergate, 277
Gray turns files over to, 272
Gray’s accusation of lying against, 274
guilty plea of, 335
Hunt and, 238
Magruder’s implication of, 293–94
rumors of resignation of, 288–92, 293
tapes and, 331
“unauthorized comment” by, 295
Watergate investigation for Nixon by, 57, 206, 212, 272, 297–98
“Deep background,” definition of, 71
“Deep Throat” (informant), 71–73, 76–77, 78, 130–35, 161, 172–73, 194–96, 242–46, 268–71, 274, 306, 330, 333
Mrs. Graham asks name of, 236–37
possible motives of, 243
on resignations of Haldeman and Dean, 288, 299
signals for, 71–72, 172, 195, 242–243
on tape erasures, 333
warning of surveillance by, 316–19
Deep Throat (movie), 260
Democratic campaign, Republican disruptions of, see Dirty tricks
Democratic convention, intelligence-gathering and sabotage-planning for, 30, 133
Democratic National Committee, civil damage suit of, 26, 49, 58
DeMotte, Clifton, 253–54
Diem, Ngo Dinh, assassination of, 306
Dirty tricks, 112–30, 133
by Hunt, 251–53
Mankiewicz’s report on, 146–47
McGovern on, 197n
Muskie on, 148–49
Muskie staffers on, 147–50
number of persons involved in, 135, 145
See also Canuck Letter; Segretti, Donald H.
Dixon, Peter, 118, 119, 124, 145
Dole, Robert, 14, 29
Washington Post attacked by, 162, 181–82
Dooley, James, 266–67
Drew, Elizabeth, 91
Eagleton, Thomas F., health record of, 45, 133, 316
Earth Day (1970), FBI report of Muskie’s speech on, 149
Ehrlichman, John D., 99, 129, 174, 213, 257, 268, 291
Colson’s fire vetoed by, 324
Dean’s charges and, 302, 304–5, 307–8, 319
and destruction of Hunt’s files, 306
Eagleton’s health records and, 316
Hunt and, 132, 237
illegality denied by, 305
indictments of, 335
Liddy on staff of, 35
Mitchell and, 300
Nixon’s continued relationship with, 335
Plumbers and, 215
resignation of, 309–11
special phone line and, 217–18
taping by Nixon not known to, 331
on television program, 160–61
at White House Correspondents’ dinner, 285
Elbourne, Tim, 125, 126
Ellsberg, Daniel, 165
burglary of psychiatrist of, 307, 312–13, 316, 335
Sturgis’ attack on, 30
Ervin, Sam J., Woodward’s interview with, 246–50
Ervin committee, see Senate Watergate committee
Evans, Rowland, 133
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
addresses in burglars’ books not called by, 237
Bernstein accused of misrepresenting self as agent of, 226
Bremer apartment left unsealed by, 326
Colson’s and Mitchell’s involvement known to, 244–45
CRP investigations by, 59–62, 78, 82, 87, 88, 134, 135, 142–43
Haldeman’s role confirmed by agent of, 176–77, 189–91, 193–94
interest in Washington Post by, 72, 86
Muskie’s Earth Day speech reported by, 149
number of Watergate interviews by, 131
Segretti interviewed by, 151–55, 203
Texas Committee interview of, 53
Washington Post accused of using 302s by, 86–87
White House interviews by, 205, 216–17
See also Gray, L. Patrick, III
Federal Campaign Expenditures Act,
46
Fielding, Fred, 216–17
“Fifth Street Lawyers,” 16
Florida primary, dirty tricks in, 251–252
GAO (General Accounting Office), CRP audits by, 46–48, 56, 265
George Washington University, 14, 79
Young Republicans at, 263
Gerstein, Richard E., 38
Watergate case and, 36, 39, 40, 70
Glanzer, Seymour, 227–28, 230, 234
Goldwater, Barry, 250
Gonzalez, Virgilio R., 19
Gore, Albert, 113, 116
Gorton, George K., 263–65
Graham, Katharine, 62, 105, 107, 108, 206, 310–11, 334
sources wanted by, 235–37
subpoena for, 260
Grand jury
calling of President before considered, 323
Mitchell’s testimony to, 300–1
Nixon orders staff to testify to, 281–282
Washington Post’s attempts to contact members of, 207–11, 222–224
See also Indictments
Gray, L. Patrick, III
Colson and Mitchell believed involved by, 244, 246
Hunt’s documents destroyed by, 305–7
nominated as permanent director of FBI, 267–74
testimony to Watergate committee by, 306n
on Washington Post’s information, 86
wiretapping of reporters by, 259
Griffiths, Kenneth, 117, 118, 119, 123
Grimm, James, 23
Guhin, Mike, 125
Gulf Resources and Chemical Co., 53
Haig, Gen. Alexander, 314
taping by Nixon known to, 331
on Washington Post’s stories as “scurrilous,” 334
Haiphong (Vietnam), phony support for mining of, 265–66
Haldeman, H. R. (Bob), 32, 126, 129, 161, 206, 212, 213, 236
campaign wiretapping pushed by, 270
Canuck Letter and, 328
Chapin and, 157
Dean and, 297, 319
Dean’s charges and, 302, 304–5, 307–8
as enigma, 298
FBI investigation of Schorr ordered by, 316
illegality denied by, 305
indictment of, 335