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8. Ibid.
9. Washington Post, January 22, 1973.
10. Washington Post, February 6, 1973.
11. Washington Post, January 22, 1973.
12. See for example Len Cholodny and Robert Gettlin, Silent Coup (New York, 1991).
13. Lyn Marcus, "Up-Valuation of German Mark Fuels Watergate Attack on Nixon," New Solidarity, July
9-13, 1973, pp. 10-11.
14. See Thomas Petzinger, Oil and Honor (New York, 1987), pp. 64- 65. See also Harry Hurt's article
mentioned above. Wright Patman's House Banking Committee revealed part of the activities of Bill Liedtke
and Mosbacher during the Watergate era.
15. Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, All the President's Men (New York, 1974), present the checks
received by Barker as one of the ways they breached the wall of secrecy around the CREEP, with the aid of
their anonymous source "Bookkeeper." But neither in this book nor in The Final Days (New York, 1976),
do "Woodstein" get around to mentioning that the Mexico City money came from Bill Liedtke. This
marked pattern of silence and reticence on matters pertaining to George Bush, certainly one of the most
prominent of the President's men, is a characteristic of Watergate journalism in general. For more
information regarding William Liedtke's role in financing the CREEP, see Hearings Before the Select
Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, 93rd Congress, including testimony by Hugh Sloan, June
6, 1973; and by Maurice Stans, June 12, 1973; see also the Final Report of the committee, issued in June,
1974. Relevant press coverage from the period includes "Stans Scathes Report," by Woodward and
Bernstein, Washington Post, September 14, 1972; and "Liedtke Linked to FPC Choice," United Press
International, June 26, 1973. Liedtke also influenced Nixon appointments in areas of interest to himself.
16. Maurice H. Stans, The Terrors of Justice: The Untold Side of Watergate.
17. New York Times, August 26, 1972, and Nov. 1, 1972.
18. Interview with a Post Oak Bank executive Nov. 21, 1991. Houston Post, Dec. 27, 1988.
19. Stanley L. Kutler, The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (New York, 1990), pp.
229-33.
20. See Jim Hougan, Secret Agenda (New York, 1984), p. 92.
21. Ervin Committee Hearings, Book 9 pp. 3441-46, and Report of the Nedzi Committee of the House of
Represenatives, p. 201, cited by Hougan, p. 318.
22. Nezdi Committee report, pp. 442-43, quoted in Hougan, p. 21.
23. Hougan, pp. 46-47.
24. Ervin Committee Final Rport, pp. 1146-49, and Hougan, pp. 131-132.
25. Al Reinert, "Bob and George Go To Washington or The Post-Watergate Scramble," Texas Monthly,
April, 1974.