The Money Behind Nixon... From Wall Street To Watergate
UnpublishedNovember
1973
Volume:
7
Number:
9
Article
Stu Bishop
"Colson was too much of a politician to believe that anything could be learned of value at the Democratic National Committee. His own intel- ligence net was far more effective - but he would not share what he learned with anyone except Haldeman and Nixon.
Susanne Jonas
"Sir, I was not there [in Watergate] to think. I was there to follow orders, not to think.
NACLA
To most Americans the Watergate affair consists of the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters, its coverup, the many White House resignations, and most recently, the "battle of the tapes" which resulted in the firing of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. But a thorough analysis of the Watergate affair must go beyond these events to take into account the network of economic interests represented by the central conspirators.
Jon Frappier
Introduction Five years ago, long before the watergates opened, Richard Nixon and John Mitchell were partners in the Wall Street law firm, Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander & Mitchell. They may wish they had never left - not because they changed their tactics when they went to Washington - but because they got caught.
NACLA
On the night of Saturday, October 20, 1973, Nixon purged Attorney General Elliot Richardson, his assistant William Ruckleshaus, and Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. The reason for this blatant display of executive power lay not in the "Battle of the Tapes," but more in the fact that Cox had initiated a widening investigation into Nixon confidant Bebe Rebozo, who, perhaps more than any other person, knows the intimate details of Nixon's presumed criminal activities.
Bert Knorr
Herbert Kalmbach, who for the last five years has been Nixon's personal attorney, has emerged as one of the central figures in the Watergate affair. He has been entrusted with the secretive and sensitive duties that a president's financial dealings require.
Lou Sempliner
While Nixon's lieutenants were being indicted and swept away by Watergate, a new group of lawyers was rapidly assembled to defend the President against the Ervin Committee, the Special Prosecutor, impeachment and the increasing hostility of the American public. Leonard Garment' replaced John Dean as the President's counsel on April 30, 1973.
Stu Bishop
A look at Maurice Stans is important not because he is a particularly unique individual possessing rare quaalities - there are probably hundreds of men in both the Republic and Democratic parties able and willing to perform the Watergate tasks he carried out. Rather, a study of Stans and the institutions he belongs to will help us understand how the U.