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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, June Centumed From Page acancies, but much of the carat has eroded from one of his most frequently invoked principles: honor. 8 Watergate, the Curse of Gemstone , In Congress, a word unspo- ken for a century has been openly Uttered: Impeachment. Watergate has cost Harry Robbms Haldeman his job. Enin pursued the course of four contributions checks from Mexico which wound up in the Miami bank account of one of n Beardless, buttonaown and crew cut, he or.ce sat at a desk down a hallway from the Oval Office, just 32 paces Sloan, the campaign treasur- er, has testified he warned Ehrlichman last July the entire Nixon organization might be involved in Watergate. He said Ehrlichman told lum: I dont want to know. By John Dean III was fired by the President. '"Evidence shows you were at the center of a vcy profound kind of corruption prosecutors told hint. reports of testimony by Bud Egil Krough, Ehrlich-man- s former aide, Ehrhch-ma- n last years approved at Daniel Ellsbergs , break-i- n psychiatrys office. Govern- ment testimony at Ellsbergs Pentagon Papers said the was supervised by two Watergate conspirators. break-i- n from the President, It was his to determine who and what should or shouldnt be admitted to the Presidents purview. He was the man who saw the President (host often. Former Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell has been indicted. Known ., the Presidents political right arm ever smee he managed Nixons 1968 campaign, Mitchell liked to say: I am first and foremost a law enforcement officer. a-- House for Sale Friends say Haldeman, a West Coast advertising executive, and his wife, Joanne, have put their $40,000 house in Georgetown on the market and plan to return to California, one-tim- e He has been charged with perjury, conspiracy and fraud in connection with a campaign gift from financier Robert L. Vesco. A grand jury says Vesco secretly and a briefcase full of cash, totaling $200,000, to the Nixon campaign, and that Mitchell interceded on Vescos behalf with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Unresolved are these Haldeman issues about Watergate: illegally-contribute- Whether he was told about ongoing meetings where plans were discussed that led to the Watergate break-in- . f Jeb Stuart Magruder, Nixons deputy campaign rector, has testified he di- Serious Accusations 'as- Jowled and with a pipe in his teeth, he faces serious accusations from Jeb Stuart sumed Haldeman knew about plans for the wiretapping in -- advance. n Magruder said he told Haldemans Strachan, I aide and liaison between the White House and the campaign, about the J plans as they I were developed. Knew of Coverup? Gor--do- step-by-ste- p Whether Haldeman knew I about a coverup. Magruder testified he told Haldeman the whole story of Watergate in the days before ..Nixons second inauguration Jan. 20. I went through a whole monologue, he said, spelling out the development of the break-iplans and naming those involved. Maurice Stans, the cam- paign money man and a former secretary of commerce denied he "laundered any checks. He called it stupidity, , n - An informed source says Strachan has offered to testify, in return for immunity, that he told Haldeman about a coverup only a few days after I the break-m- . , t Haldeman has denied prior knowledge of the wiretapping. I can categorically state, Haldeman has told a Senate j subcommittee on intelligence that at no time, operations, nor in any way, did I suggest, direct or participate in any coverup . . J -- W'hat he knew about an saboteur 'ccused political ' John D. Ehlichman He was the reWater-gat-e. affairs chief, whose to screen every prodo--- 1 piece of advice on nest ic issues. As portly as .Haldeman is lean, he and are long, fast I Haldeman friends. Both are are Christian smoke nor their current 'pressures, both still battle it out weekly at tennis. Their neither drinks. De.-m-te Teutonic names, icy disposi-tion- s and zeal on behalf of the boss" earned them the Hans and Fritz nicknames and The Berlin Wall. Katzenjammer Kids Martha Mitchell called them Katzenjammer kids. jthe Nixons lawyer, former personal Herbert W. Kalm- - r rs i, IV-- ' ' prostitutes, cameras and recorders to gain information from Democratic officials, Mitchell settled on the Watergate wiretapping project. give Gordon Liddy, a FBI agent turned a quarter campaign aide of a million dollars, and lets see what he can come up with, Magruder quoted Mitchell as saying at a meeting with Magruder and campaign aide Fred LaRue on March 30 last year in Key Biscay ne, Fla. He said Mitchell picked Watergate as the Lets ... target. Presidents i job was posal or : Magruder, the deputy campaign director. has testified Magruder Mitchell approved the Watergate telephone tapping. After rejecting plans that would have cost $1 million and $500,000, Magruder said, to kidnap radical leaders and hold them in Mexico until after the Republican National Convention, and use a yacht, former named Donald Segretti. In his deposition, Haldeman testified he knew of Segretti jbut he refused to answer questions about Segrettis operations on grounds the information wasnt relevant to the Democrats lawsuit. signed, too, because of Mitchell has said he always plans wiretapping when they came up at meetings of Nixon campaign aides. No such operations were approved by me, he as said, "at any time under any circumstances. rejected Maurice Stans was indicted along with Mitchell. Nixons former secretary of commerce, he is charged, like with Mitchell, conspiracy, obstructing justice and perjury in connection with the Vesco campaign contribution. Stans was Nixons ace fund raiser. Hands trembling, ringers pressed on the witness table to keep them still, knuckles white from the pressure, Stans began two days of testimony last week before the Senate Watergate committee. When he fimshed he had: Denied knowledge of the wiretapping raid, political sabotage or intentional violation of any campaign laws. 4 Swore he never saw a memo from one of his assistants saying Stans had set aside $1 million at the Department of Commerce to help the President get Called it pure and innocent coincidence that financial records from Nixons 1971 I If isconsin Gov. Patrick Lucey said "the evidence . . , is so conclusive not only that he (A ixon) had knowledge about the coverup, but also participated be init. that he reliidlilated. T the convicted Watergate and cash proceeds from which returned to the committee several weeks later. Dont you call that laundering checks? asked Ervin. No, 1 dont call that launrs Was the committee accustomed to laundering checks? asked Chairman Sam Ervin. Our committee did not launder any checks bach, has been eported in news accounts as ready to testify he solicited money from the Presidents finance committee on Ehrkchmans instructions to depay Watergate break-ifendants and their lawyers. The reports say Kalmbach balked at raising the money when Haldeman asked him to do so. campaign were stroyed shortly after the tergate break-in- . deWa- dering checks "Well, what do you call it? "I call it stupidity John W. Dean III was fired by the President. Son of a prosperous toy manufacturer, he was graduated from Georgetown Law School. ..- - He worked for a Washington law firm, served as staff lawyer for the House Judiciary Committee and moved through the Justice Department and onto the White all by age 34. House staff White At the House, federal prosecutors have told him in a letter, evidence shows "you were at the center of a vry profout d kind of corruption. "Involved was your exploitation of a position of trust in order to foster a pervasive scheme to obstruct justice we cannot . . Accordingly, allow you to trade your testimony about the culpability of others in return for dropping 17, 1973 A I T all charges against you. Sources say Dean has declined to answer questions before the federal grand jury on of giounds possible But a judge has granted him immunity for testimony before the Senate committee. And Dean has vowed he will not be a "scapegoat |