All the President's Men (53 page)

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,
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

    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
,
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

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,
290
n

Chennault, Anna,
14

Chenow, Kathleen,
215
–17,
220
n
,
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,
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

    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