News

Adams Alumni Go Nuts for Newly Renovated House

News

A Better Cambridge Announces Endorsements in City Council Race, Giving Boost to Incumbents

News

HUA Kicks Off With Inaugural Meeting Under New Administration

News

Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions

News

Memorial Church Reduces Programming Amid University Budget Cuts

Watergate Is Wide Open

SCANDALS:

By Mark C. Frazier

When five men awkwardly surrendered in the Watergate apartment complex late last Spring, no one would have guessed that ten months later three present and former high aides to President Nixon would be implicated in the scandal.

But last week such an event came to pass, as panic spread through the upper ranks of the White House and strong signs of perjury and coverups by Nixon advisors emerged.

Jeb Stuart Magruder, chosen by the Institute of Politics for a fellowship here next year, broke the silence of the inner circle when he reportedly said last Saturday that John N. Mitchell, a past head of the Committee to Reelect the President and former Attorney General, had approved the Watergate bugging.

Magruder testified to a grand jury that he had met with Mitchell and presidential counsel John W. Dean III to plan the tapping and espionage enterprise. He added, according to Washington Post reports, that Mitchell had "arranged to buy the silence of the seven convicted Watergate conspirators."

As Magruder's claims smudged the credibility of Mitchell's protestations of innocence--Mitchell asserted Thursday that he had heard of the plans on three occasions but expressed disapproval each time--Dean bolted from his previous pristine silence.

In a thinly disguised warning, the head of Nixon's first investigation of the Watergate affair insisted that he would not become a "scapegoat."

Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter.

Tags