The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It

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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

 

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