Watergate, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
...ank to the President's campaign finance chairman for the Midwest was given to "the treasurer of the Committee (for the Re-election of the President) or to Maurice Stans himself." And from there it found its way into the bank account of the real estate firm owned by Bernard L. Barker. When asked how to check got for the campaign finance chairman to the bank account of one of the Watergate burglars said he didn't have "the vaguest idea" how the check got into the account. The media asking the hard questions to get out the dirty truth. It seems that it just makes the politician look dumb. “John N. Mitchell, while serving as U.S.Attorney General, personally controlled a secret Republican fund that was used to gather information about the Democrats, according to sources involved in the Watergate investigation.” This is the first paragraph in an article entitled “Mitchell Controlled Secret GOP Fund”. When comforted about this account and the Posts article this is the statement that came out "All that crap, you're putting it in the paper? It's all been denied. Jesus. Katie Graham (Katharine Graham, publisher of The Washington Post) is gonna get caught in a big fat wringer if that's published. Good Christ. That's the most sickening thing I've ever heard." Sounds like he’s getting a little pissed off and why would he get mad if he wasn’t hiding anything. “The sources of The Post's information on the secret fund and its relationship to Mitchell and other campaign officials include law enforcement officers and persons on the staff of the Committee for the Re-election of the President.” This was one of the things that “Deep Throat” was able to help Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward with. According to The Post's sources, The grand jury the investigated the bugging of Watergate were not made aware the intelligence-gathering fund directly financed the illegal eavesdropping. Do to this fact “Investigators have been told that the only record of the secret fund -- a single sheet of lined ledger paper, listing the names of about 15 persons who received payments and how much each received -- was destroyed by Nixon campaign officials after the June 17 break-in at the Watergate.” But this was also divulged by “Deep Throat”, “It has been established, however, that G. Gordon Liddy, the former Nixon finance committee counsel who was one of the seven men indicted in the Watergate case, withdrew well in excess of $50,000 in cash from the fund, the sources said.” In the next Article it became clear that there was something for the Nixon white house to hide. Entitled “FBI Finds Nixon Aides Sabotaged Democrats” In the first paragraph it is clearly stated that the FBI had found that the “Watergate bugging incident stemmed from a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage conducted on behalf of President Nixon's re-election and directed by officials of the White House and the Committee for the Re-election of the President.” During the Watergate investigation the FBI found the hundreds of thousands of dollars form Nixon campaign founds were put aside to pay for an undercover campaign to discredit and disrupted indavidual Democratic candidates. Its not unusual for there to be inelegance on the other candidates but no to the extent that’s Nixon had on these. “Following members of Democratic candidates' families and assembling dossiers on their personal lives; forging letters and distributing them under the candidates' letterheads; leaking false and manufactured items to the press; throwing campaign schedules into disarray; seizing confidential campaign files; and investigating the lives of dozens of Democratic campaign workers. In addition, investigators said the activities included planting provocateurs in the ranks of organizations expected to demonstrate at the Republican and Democratic conventions; and investigating potential donors to the Nixon campaign before their contributions were solicited. Law enforcement sources said that probably the best example of the sabotage was the fabrication by a White House aide -- of a celebrated letter to the editor alleging that Sen. Edmund S. Muskie (D-Maine) condoned a racial slur on Americans of French-Canadian descent as "Canucks."” The article above was the last one write by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward on Nixon until June 3, 1973. In the time from October 10, 1972, the last article, Nixon won the next election bye a landslide, despite all the articles and controversy going around. The Watergate trials went on “Two former officials of President Nixon's re-election committee, G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord, Jr. were convicted yesterday of conspiracy, burglary and bugging the Democratic Party's Watergate headquarters.” That was an article in the Washington Post Wednesday, January 31, 1973. Finally Nixon came out with a speech to try to clear his name, but it was so long after all this had started that t seemed like a sad attempted. April...