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Authors: Bob Woodward,Carl Bernstein
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.
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This conversation with Woodward was on background, but Senator Ervin later gave permission to be quoted in this book.
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A civil-service ranking. The grades run from GS-1 to GS-18.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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John J. Caulfield, a former New York City policeman, was a White House undercover agent and investigator.
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Richard M. Helms and General Vernon A. Walters were the director and deputy director of the CIA.
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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
lawyer of,
327
n
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,
112
n
,
114
,
133
,
215
,
233
,
301
ITT memo published by,
255
–56
Anti-war demonstrators
Sussman’s research on,
51
–52
Arlington (Mass.),
165
Ashbrook, John,
133
Atlantic
magazine,
91
Bagdikian, Ben,
192
Baldwin, Alfred C., III,
65
,
114
L.A. Times
story on,
108
–11,
222
,
225
“Ballot security,”
28
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, 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
,
182
n
,
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
Bremer, Arthur,
202
proposed break-in of apartment of,
326
–30
Brill, Theodore F.,
262
–65
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
Caddy, Douglas, at preliminary hearing,
16
–17
Campbell, Donald E.,
230
Cannon, Lou,
281
Canossa incident,
231
Canuck Letter,
127
–29,
134
,
136
–42,
144
,
148
,
285
–86,
328
Cassidento, John,
109
Central Intelligence Agency,
see
CIA
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,
290
n
Chennault, Anna,
14
Chenow, Kathleen,
215
–17,
220
n
,
258
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency),
73
Black Operation of,
115
Martinez and,
234
McCord and,
18
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
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
Cronkite, Walter, Mankiewicz impersonated in call to,
147
n
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
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