The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down (47 page)

Neal, James (Jim),
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172–173
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Ngo Dinh Diem,
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Nixon, Pat,
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Nixon, Richard Milhous

      
1960 presidential election and,
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xix–xx

      
1962 California gubernatorial election and,
xi
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xx
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xxiii

      
1968 campaign against liberal judges and,
199–202

      
1968 presidential election and,
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xxi–xxii
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238

      
1972 landslide re-election over McGovern and,
3
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184–185
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189–190
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237

      
accomplishments of, as president,
xxv–xxvii

      
Alger Hiss exposed by,
xvii–xviii
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14
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33–34

      
alleged abuses of power and,
69–70
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236

      
biography of,
xv–xxvii

      
coming of age of,
ix–x

      
convicting in absentia, via cover-up trial,
92–98

      
as Eisenhower’s running mate,
xix
,
xx

      
elected to House,
xvii

      
elected to Senate,
xviii

      
Home Rule initiative of,
201–202

      
Hunt’s blackmail demand and alleged payoff and,
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73–74
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86–87
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89–90
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92

      
IRS harassment of,
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judicial and prosecutorial collusion to get him “at all cost,”
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80–81
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281–285

      
naming as unindicted co-conspirator,
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78–79
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87–88
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Nixon’s people and,
xxii–xxiv

      
pardoned by President Ford,
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rapid rise of, in politics,
xvi–xix

      
resignation of.
See
Nixon’s resignation

Nixon Defense
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The: What He Knew and When He Knew It
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33–35

Nixon Legacy Forums,
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240

Nixon Library,
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Nixon v. Sirica
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Nixon’s resignation,
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21
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25
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31
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37
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67
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185
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189
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205
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237

      
backward look at,
68–70

      
new information since,
98–99
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237–238

Nixon’s Watergate defense,
xiv

      
collapse of,
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Nuremberg trials,
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Obama, Barack,
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69–70
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239–240

Obamacare,
69–70
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O’Brien, Paul,
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Office of Management and Budget,
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xxvii

On American Soil: How Justice Became a Casualty of World War II
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232–233

O’Neill, Tip,
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Pack, Robert,
106–107

Pakula, Alan,
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Parkinson, Kenneth,
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Pentagon Papers,
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Perry, Rick,
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Petersen, Henry,
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Plame, Valerie,
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Plumbers, break-in by,
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Poindexter, John,
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Porter, Herbert,
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Powell, Adam Clayton,
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Powell, Lewis,
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Prados, John,
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Profiles in Courage
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Prud’hon, Pierre Paul,
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Reagan, Ronald,
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Rehnquist, William,
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Reisner, Robert,
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Richard Nixon Foundation,
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Richardson, Elliot,
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Rient, Peter,
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291–294
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303–306

Road Map,
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defined,
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drafting,
81–87

      
sealed transmission to HJC by WSPF, via Judge Sirica,
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257–260

Robinson, Spottswood,
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Rockefeller, Nelson,
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Roe v. Wade
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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano,
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Ruth, Henry (Hank),
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participated in secret meeting,
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Sadat, Anwar,
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Sagan, Carl,
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Saturday Night Massacre,
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Saudi Arabia,
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Scalia, Antonin,
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secret meetings

      
between federal judges and persons adverse to Nixon or his people,
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105–127
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See also
individual participants

      
between judges and Watergate prosecutors,
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42–43
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49–63
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76–77
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127
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See also
individual participants

      
right to due process subverted by,
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40
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42–43
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49–63

Secret Plot
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The
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Segretti, Donald,
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Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities.
See
Ervin Committee

Senate Select Committee v. Nixon
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Shaffer, Charles (Charlie),
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166–167
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Shapiro, David,
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Shepard, Geoff

      
background of,
x–xv
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role of, during Watergate events,
ix–x

Shultz, George,
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xxvii

Silberman, Laurence,
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Silbert, Earl,
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secret meeting with Judge Sirica,
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126–127

Simon and Schuster,
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Sirica, John J.,
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appeals and,
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arrogance of,
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attempt to remove as cover-up trial judge and,
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bias of,
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conduct of break-in trial and,
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enthralled by media attention,
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as false hero of Watergate,
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false sentencing ploy of,
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judicial antics and,
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participated in secret meetings,
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chart,
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with Dash,
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with Jaworski,
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with Mollenhoff,
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with Silbert,
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with Williams,
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in peril of reversal on appeal,
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response of, to jury taint and bias problems,
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Watergate cover-up trial jury and,
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192–198

Six Crises
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Sixth Amendment,
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Sloan, Hugh,
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“smoking gun,”
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Sorensen, Ted,
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Soviet Union, détente achieved with,
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St. Clair, James,
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Stalin, Joseph,
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Stans, Maurice (Maury),
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