The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down (38 page)

APPENDIX J

Draft Jaworski memorandum to Ruth of January 21, 1974, criticizing WSPF as believing that “the President must be reached at all cost”

Discussed at p. 77–81 in text

APPENDIX K

Partial Chart of the Kennedy/Johnson Department of Justice, showing those who later became key players in Watergate

Discussed at p. 147 in text

ROLE IN WATERGATE

WSPF PROSECUTORS

Archibald Cox: Harvard Law professor and Kennedy advisor who became original Special Prosecutor

Henry Ruth: Deputy Special Prosecutor, becoming Special Prosecutor upon Jaworski’s resignation

Philip Heymann and James Vorenberg: Special Assistant to the Special Prosecutor and fellow Harvard Law professor with Cox

Philip Lacovara: Counsel to the Special Prosecutor and Chief of the Law Research Section

James Neal: Head of the Watergate Task Force

Richard Ben-Veniste: Deputy head of the Watergate Task Force

William Merrill: Head of the Plumbers Task Force

Thomas McBride: Head of the Campaign Contributions Task Force

Richard Davis: Head of the Dirty Tricks Task Force

Charles Ruff: Member of the Campaign Finance Task Force, becoming Special Prosecutor upon Ruth’s resignation (and later Counsel to President Clinton)

Jill Wine Volner: Member of the Watergate Task Force

Jay Horowitz: Member of the Plumbers Task Force

Peter Rient: Member of the Law Research Section

ERVIN COMMITTEE STAFF

Carmine Bellino: Longtime Kennedy aide, who was the committee’s political liaison

Terry Lenzer (note he appears twice): the Committee’s chief investigator

HJC IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY STAFF

John Doar: The Committee’s chief of staff

Bernard Nussbaum: Head of the Committee’s Watergate investigation (and later Counsel to President Clinton).

OTHER

William Bittman: Howard Hunt’s defense counsel

Charles Shaffer: John Dean’s defense counsel

Burke Marshall: Yale Law professor and senior advisor to Senator Edward Kennedy, who arranged for his former students to get key positions on the Impeachment Inquiry staff

APPENDIX L

Rient memorandum to Ben-Veniste of February 6, 1974, detailing discrepancies between Dean’s Senate testimony and White House tapes, prepared following Jaworski’s public assertion that they knew of no reason to question Dean’s veracity

Discussed at pp. 149, 165 in text

APPENDIX M

Watergate Final Decisions memorandum of February 20, 1974, containing extensive discussions and dissent regarding Jaworski’s decision to omit Bittman from the indictment