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D Viste 42) R -• J111 L_Ire CL,113 a -urrit ii to q ■ hJ -1 _ d VisTe 42) r .67-1c.-:ant 7-Li Li1 wee-12r o .11/:-1 . HeirjDpern Yes, to the best of our recollection by Edward J. Epstein and John Berendt While you were busy watching the testimony over televi- sion, others were formulating theories as to what Water- gate was all about, from the tip of the iceberg right on down to the murky bottom. Here is how it looked from forty-three different perspectives. Choose one and run. deman ordered his !Ilea 'cleaned" after ,lona( campaign of John Kerry. attempt. Who Masterminded June 17. ing to smear Connecticut Senator Lowell Watergate? Weicker, etc. He even proposed fire-bomb- JOHN MITCHELL "SIGN OFF" ing the Brookings Institution, according to THEORY John Dean. THE DAREDEVIL THEORY Drawback: Colson denies he had prior Penn ms: Jeb Stuart Magruder. John Proponent: I he White ll,use. knowledge of Watergate and says he took Ehrliehman, Fred Buzhardt. Thesis: Gordon Liddy either exceeded his and passed a lie-detector test in order to orders or directly disobeyed John Mitchell Mesh: John Mitchell approved the Wa- tergate break-in without telling anyone in prove it. by carrying out :he Watergate break in on Retort: Senator Sam Ervin on lie-detector his own. the White House. t tests: 'Twentieth-century witchcraft." Selling Points: Liddy was known to he a Selling Points: As chairman of the Com- daredevil adventurer—he had once threat- mittee to Reelect the President. John Mitchell was in a position to approve or NIXON'S THE ONE THEORY ened to kill Nlaeruticr. Furthermore. Lid- Proponents: tha Nlitchell, eight oer- dy claimed he had perm:salon for Water- Tercet any intelligence plan. Jeb Magruder, cent or the American people. gate from higher-ups. but none of the oth- his deputy. snore before the Ervin Com- Thesis: Richard Nixon approved Water- er convicted coconspirators eser saw proof mittee- that Mitchell had indeed "signed off' on the idea. He also testified that gate and therefore had to cover it up. of that Firsthand. Selling Point: This explains everything in Drawback: For three weeks Liddy had Mitchell later ordered the wiretap logs destroyed. one fell swoop—Ockham's Razor. been feeding "Gemstone" phone-tap tran- Drawback: Why would the President risk r scripts to his superior. Mitchell left the campaign only fifteen days after the claiming domestic everything by involving himself? THE JOHN DEAN PRODUCTION problems. At the same time. Martha HOWARD HUGHES THEORY S THEORY Mitchell complained of "all the ditty Pentium:it: Carl Ogle0:ly in /he Boston 3 Proponent: J. Fred Buzhardt Jr.. Special things that go on" in politics. Almeria . Counsel to the President. Drawback: President Nixon has always Thesis: Hughes is ubiquitous. Oeksbe Theaks: Watergate was a John Dean pro- said he !tim his own campaigns. It notes, "Behind ;:iron stands Howard duction from stare to finish. Dean original- Retort: Nixon claims he was too occupied Hughes: behind Hunt and Liddy and the ly suggested to Muchell that the Commit- with being President to tun the campaign Caribbean counterrevolution stands tee to Reelect create a private detective this time. Hughes: behind Watergate stands I- agency, to be headed by his assistant John Hughes." Presumably, Hunt and Liddy re Caulfield. for security work and spying— THE DIRTY TRICKSTER THEORY .if budget $450.000. After Mitchell rejected Proponent: John Dean. were working for Hughes. Selling Point: This might explain why a- "Operation Sandwedge." Dean brought in 1 liesi.v Presidential Special Counsel I.iddy told McCord that Hughes would G. Gordon Liddy and Odd him that there Charles Colson secretly oserrode John ee supply a prisate plane for 3 "getaway" would be "a million or more" for spy Mitchell', veto of the Watergate bugging ig from a contemplated I.3-5 Vegas burglary. work. Although Mitchell thrice rejected plan and gave Hunt and Liddy the go- o- Hunt claimed to be friends—and business Liddy's plans. Liddy went ahead under ahead. ne partners—with Howard Hughes in Central the impression that Mitchell and Dean rust SeiGng Points: if Colson would walk over is wanted "deniability." After Liddy', team his grandmother to reelect Nrson. would Arne ricer. Drawback: No evidence. en was caught in the Watergate, Dean super- he not walk laser John MIL:hell? Colson us vised the corer-up. unknown to his superi- was Hunt's immediate superior at the ors. to protect himself. White House. and he had ureed than to HUNT VOICE-ALTERING ie- Selling Points: Dean admits sponsoring give Liddy's -intelligence- plans a lair THEORY Proponent: Dr. Charles Lane, molc.elar he "Operation Sandwedge" and he attended hearing at CREEP atter they sad been re- jected Widely thought of as Niaon's biologist, Cambridge, England. ep two meeting, where hugging plans were once. presented. Dean discussed executive clem- "dirty tricks" man. Colson ha.: superin- Thesis: E Howard Hunt used a "%owe- a ency with Magruder, sent messages to tended an ingressive assortment of shady :altering device" and various disuse-es to sr- McCord. and asked for. and received. the Ikeda: overseeing a secret investigation imitate White House otticials. inch.ding .he F.B.I. reports on the case. into Edward Kennedy's private lite. trying Nixon. Ehrlichroan, Haldeman. teison. to Drawbacks: Mitchell okayed the plan. to force a tax audit on an anti-Nixon and Dean, while making calls on the an- Teamster official, compiling a White White House scrambler phone lie sanding to Magruder. hhrlichniart okayed um I cash payments to the burglar,. And Hal- House enemy list, "trashing- the Congrcs- thus able to command unsuspecting derlinns to carry out Watergate and the THE JACK ANDERSON ready on it. Liddy. according to News- cover-Up. EXCLUSIVE THEORY tvia-R. had kidnapped ITT lobbyist Dita Selling Points: This would explain many Proponent: Leo lam, former press secre- !leant out of New York. of the samtradection, in testimony : e.c. tary to Senator Edward Gurney at Hari- Drawback: No hard evidence. F.hrlichman claiming he neater letephoned da. General Cushman for C I \ assistance Thesis: Shortly after the Watergate bteak• THE CUBAN GAME-PLAN THEORY to Hunt. though Cushman says he heard in. Leo Z.ini put out the story that the Wa- Proponents Hidden): General Vernon Fhrliehman's voice: atrogh's orders from tergate langlara were registered Demo- Walters. of C.I.A.. John Dean. iClacni: Niaon to break into Ellsherg's raycnia. crats and that one of them. Flank Sturgis. James J. Kilpatrick, William F. Buckley. was a double agent in the employ of col- Thesis: The key to Watergate is Havana. umnist Jack Ander-on. According to Lim, Castro desired normal relations with the Anderson got Sturgis and another of the U.S. and believed that only a Democratic burglar% Eugenio Martinez, to set up the Administration would bring this about. Others and embarrass the Republicans. William Buckley suggests the following Selling Points: Not only are Anderson hypothesis: "Someone inside the Castro and Sturgis friends. but Anderson even Government. .ripped off a prominent went 133 court and asked to have Sturgis Republican" about a deal between Castro released in his custody. and the Democratic Party to finance the Drasvhark: Zani's ex-boss. Senator Gur- Democratic campaign. "The recipient of ney. apparently thought so little of this this information requisitioned a suitcase theory that he never mentioned it during full of money with which to pay profes- the Watergate hearings. sionals to bug the Democratic headquar- ters. But in tum, the Republicans were betrayed." Selling Point: The Watergate operation otEce; Dean's orders lions Halde- What Were They After? can he justified as a "national-security op- man to maintain a cover-up. Finalls. it SELF-DEFENSE THEORY eration," which Nixon Jauntiest ordering explains how the Watergate might hase Proponent: James McCord. conceit led, been authorized in the first place: Hunt Thesis: The Democratic National Com- Drawback: Dean and Walters have as- called 'Mitchell using Nixon's voice tone. mittee was encouraging kit-wing groups serted that the "Cuban Theory" was de- Drawback: Nonc. lea the perfect crime.. to plan violent demonstrations at the Re- vised to mislead the press. publican Convention. so the Watergate ACT OF GOD THEORY break-in was necessary to uncover the plot. COUNTER-BUGGING THEORY Proponent: Reverend Billy Graham. Proponent: James aiccora, Thesis: According to Graham. Watergate Selling Points: McCord cited the riots at Thesis: Watergate was justifiable on the was an the 1968 Democratic Convention and re- act of God and a judgment on grounds that the Democrats had already A met ica. counted to the Ers in Committee a dis- pulled a Watergate-style bugging opera- turbing trend of violence toward the fed- Saint:Point: This theory ennobles the tion on the Republicans. whole enterprise: the White House eral government t the Capitol and Penta- was We had word from C.R.P. sources." gon bombings) and the Republican Party covering up for God. McCord told the Erin Committee. "al• thumbing+ in Oakland. Manchester. Aus- Drawback: God only knows. leging that the McGovern committees had tin and threats against the lives of Mr. and 'a pipeline' directly into the offices of the Mrs. Mitchell). He said there was infor- MR. X THEORY Committee to Reelect the President in mation that 250.000 demonstrators would Proponent: John Mitchell. Washington: allegedly, they were feed- be in Miami. many of them "out to com- Thesis: Someone gave orders to go ahead ing out. on a regular basis. policy posi- mit violence." with Watergate after Mitchell refused, tion papers. i.e.. plans and strategy...." Drawback: If the above were true.
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