OT: Watergate: What We Don't Know

[Steve Thomas]

I have always figured that there was more to Watergate, than we were ever told.

From a March 22, 1973 conversation betwen Nixon, Halderman, Mitchell, Ehrlichman, and Halderman:

Ehrlichman: John says he's sorry he sent those burglars in there, and that helps a lot.

Nixon: That's right.

Mitchell: You are very welcome sir [laughter]

Halderman: Just glad the others didn't get caught.

Nixon: Yeah, the ones we sent to Muskie and all the rest, Jackson and Hubert and uh [unintelligible]

and I went, "Whoa."

Steve Thomas

from: Emery, Fred. Watergate. Times Books, 1994, p. 278

[John Simkin]

I have always figured that there was more to Watergate, than we were ever told.

From a March 22, 1973 conversation betwen Nixon, Halderman, Mitchell, Ehrlichman, and Halderman:

Ehrlichman: John says he's sorry he sent those burglars in there, and that helps a lot.

Nixon: That's right.

Mitchell: You are very welcome sir [laughter]

Halderman: Just glad the others didn't get caught.

Nixon: Yeah, the ones we sent to Muskie and all the rest, Jackson and Hubert and uh [unintelligible]

and I went, "Whoa."

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According to an interview Segretti gave to Carl Bernstein, the main plot was to get McGovern as the Democratic Party candidate. Nixon was convinced he could beat him but was worried about Muskie. Therefore the dirty tricks campaign against Muskie. This was successful and therefore Segretti was rather confused about the motives for the Watergate break-in.

[Tim Gratz]

John as I pointed out when Segretti approached me in December of 1971 his top priority was to plant a spy in the Muskie campign.