INVESTIGATIONS: Teamsters' Watergate Connection

"What I mean is you could get a million dollars ... And you could get it in cash. I know where it could be gotten ... We could get the money. There is no problem in that."

So said Richard Nixon on March 21, 1973, while talking with White House Counsel John Dean about the Watergate burglars' demands for huge sums of hush money. When the transcript of the tape-recorded conversation was disclosed a year later, no one outside the cover-up conspiracy knew precisely what the President had in mind. It remained one of...

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