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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, June 1 Cl 17. 1973 T The Cisre of Gemstone One year ago Sunday , m an operation called The Watergate Scandal, One Year Later Gemstone, five men broke into the Democratic National Committee By Richard E. Meyer headquarters in the Watergate , Associated Press Writer first it seemed At aware of like a a good idea. Even John Mitchell was said Watergate was in this thing up to his eyebrows. On April 30, Nixon retreated publicly from his certainty. cov-eru- McCord, convicted with six in the break-m- , hastestified that John J. Caulfield, a former White House aide, offered him executive clemency m return for silence; and the offer, he quoted Caulfield as saying, came from the very highest levels of the White House. to have approved. others of conspiracy So, on Memorial Day week- end a year ago James McCord and four others broke into the Democratic National Committee for the first time, in a complex of offices and apartments called Watergate, The four photographed documents. McCord bugged telephones But at a listening post in a motel across the street, it soon became apparent that one of the bugs wasnt work- Man Tsve Message McCord said Caulfield told him the President knew about his meeting with McCord. He further stated, McCord said, that I may have a message to you at our next meeting from the President himself. ing. It was the curse of Gemstone. (I Now, he said, he had new information suggesting there had been an effort to conceal the facts both from the public and from me. from you Because of the emphasis I put on the crucial importance of protecting the national security, I can understand how highly motivated individuals could have felt justified in engaging in specific activities that 1 would have disapproved j A .V t ", 4 L Pratical Responsibility On May 22, he retreated even farther, and seemed to accept partial responsibility. He had feared, Nixon said, that full investigation into Watergate might harm national security, and had told Halde-maand Ehrlichman to insure that it didnt. s Tr 1 i I 4 To the extent that I may in any way L'4 . sat a an investigation indicated that "no one in the H hite House staff, no one in this administration , presently employed, was involved lie later changed his mind. n Caulfield doesnt recall say-inanything about the President. The offer of clemency, he has testified, came from Dean. There has been evidence, at least, of covering up for the Presidents sake. Herbert L. Porter, scheduling director for the committee, has told a select Senate committee investigating Watergate he lied to the FBI, a grand jury and at the trial for McCord and those arrested with him, about the reason he issued $100,000 to G. Gordon Liddy, one of McCords convicted Their capture started a The evidence, said Lucey, including his own . . . statement, is so conclusive not only that he had knowledge of the coverup, but also participated m it, that he cannot be rehabilitated. And none other than Melvin Laird said: Government in some quarters is at a standstill. have contributed to the climate in which they took place, I did not intend to. To the extent that I failed to prevent them, I should have been more vigilant . . That was enough for some, such as Democratic Gov. Patrick Lucey of Wisconsin, to call for Nixon's resignation. major scandal. What has the year meant for the key j figures, touched as they Indeed, in the first year of Watergate, more than a dozen administration officials have Two of quit or resigned. Nixon's former cabinet officers were indicted the first since Teapot Dome. Nixon has filled many of the See Page Column 1 icere, by the curse of Gemstone? g known as the Iresidenlt political right arm , former General John Attorney Mitchell liked to say: "I am jlrsl and foremost a law enforcement officer. " WWWWWSAWV-Wi- N Exactly one year ago Sunday, June 17, McCord and his Porter Re-ele- . Stuart deputy asked campaign him: Would you corroborate a story that money was authorized for something more legitimate sounding than dirty tricks? Porter Together, said, they worked out a story about using the funds to pay 10 college students to infiltrate radical groups in 10 cities for 10 months. . . . . has the past year meant for some of the key figures in the scandal touched, as they were, by the curse of Gemstone For virtually all. has meant a decline in power, a lessening of influence, a shad11 .. the center of the stands Richard M. Nixon, embattled as never before, object of a swirling debate about the central Watergate cov-eru- Reports in Paper Former White House counsel John W. Dean III has been reported by the Washington Post to have said the Presi-aen- t asked him personally how much it would cost to keep the Watergate conspirators quiet. Told it might require $1 million, Nixon, by this account, was said by Dean to have replied that would be no then to have problem added a few days later that he had been telling federal investigators Nixon personally congratulated him for covering up. 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Haide-- DOWNTOWN STORE for- The President sent Dean to Camp David to make a written report, Haldeman said, but he came back empty handed. 1 MURRAY 4425 So. State Porter: My loyalty to thus man, Rienard Nixon . . . :E questions: What did the President know? How much was he told? Has he tried to cover up Was he aw are of any by others? There has been no public disclosure of direct evidence of presidential complicity. As investigations go on. answers to these questions become one nuns word against another's. GRANGER STORE VALLEY FAIR MALL ' Howard H. Baker Jr.. What caused you to conown abdicate your science? . At Sun. Thru Tues. Sale Sen. What ow Jeb Nixons director, said Magruder, They got caught. McCord w as identified as security chief for the Committee to the President. Peo pie learned about the Republicans secret plan to spy on the Democrats, called Gemstone. And its curse stained the United States with one of the ugliest scandals m Us history. Names Pop Ip . 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