INVESTIGATIONS: The $100,000 Misunderstanding

When he decided to fire Archibald Cox, almost nothing made Richard Nixon angrier than the special prosecutor's investigation of the $100,000 Nixon campaign gift from Howard Hughes to Charles ("Bebe") Rebozo, the President's close friend. That matter, Nixon firmly declared, was off limits. But the matter did not die with the departure of Cox. It was pursued by a dogged, four-man team of investigators from the Senate Watergate committee under the direction of Terry Lenzner, 34, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in New York City and a onetime member of the Berrigan...