Bob Haldeman
Harry Robbins "Bob" Haldeman (1926-1993) was a businessman and American political adviser. General secretary of the White House under the president Richard Nixon, it was implied in the Scandale of Watergate.
In 1948, it enters to the the University of California, where it meets John Ehrlichman, which will become him also a close adviser of the president. It begins its career in publicity, in Los Angeles and New York. It meets Nixon in 1950, and integrates its team of countryside in 1956 (for the vice-presidency), 1960 (for the presidency), and in 1962, at the time of its unfruitful attempt to become governor of California. In 1968, it is him which directs the team of countryside of Nixon, when he is elected president.
Appointed chief of the cabinet of the White House in 1969, it forms with Ehrlichman a tandem called the " wall of Berlin" , because they draw aside the other collaborators of Nixon, of which they remain the closest advisers.
At the time of the scandal of Watergate, it is blamed as a silent partner of the team of " plombiers" who burglarized the seat of the democratic party, and it must resign with Ehrlichman on April 30th, 1973. John Dean, former legal adviser of the White House, testifies against him, affirming that he plotted to bury the business, shortly after that burgling took place, which will be confirmed by recordings given by the White House. He is condemned in January 1975 for conspiracy, obstruction with justice and perjury and carries out a 18 months sorrow of prison.
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