ed amongst the men (170). Although Hunt was incensed at receiving only partial payment, he made no new threat to expose the cover-up. The day after the payment was made, Mitchell met at the white house with Dean, Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman. he told them that Hunt was "not a problem any more" (192) The Nixon committees also repeatedly lied to the country. John Mitchell issued a statement and flat out lied to the country. We have learned from news reports that a man identified as employed by our campaign committee was one of five persons arrested at the Democratic National committee headquarters. The person involved is the proprietor of a private security agency who was employed by our committee months ago to assist with the installation of our security system. He has, as we understand it, a number of business clients and interests and we have no knowledge of those relationships. we want to emphasize that this man and the other people involved were not operating either in our behalf or with our consent. (158) The lies went on and on, and the truth kept leaking out. The president and his comities were being exposed, and the presidency was disgraced and all trust in the government was lost. Some say, "Had a uniformed officer in a marked car appeared and Hunt gotten the warning earlier, he probably would have been able to alert McCord and the Miamians in time for them to escape. The Watergate scandal--and its subsequent enrichment of our language--would never have happened." (Heritage 42). However, it did happen, and anyone old enough to read at that time, will never ...
