European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Nixon in t the Only one who profited the wages of watergate you could get a million Dollar. And you could get it in Cash. I know where u could be gotten. " Richard m. Nixon to John Dean the Oval office March 21, 1973. By Harry p. Rosentha associated press lot of people made Money on . Good Guys Little Guys chiefs. They air Learned As Richard m. Nixon Tolda l John w. Dean in in another context that Cash could be , of course got it from television. Others got it by being lawyers lawyer authors principals4uroed-writ-Era, reporters tuned author movie makers and even Sellers of Bourbon with the Nia Gic word watergate on the Label in the five years since five burglars were caught in the act on june 17, 1972, watergate has become a growth Industry. Watergate May not have been the american Way but the profit made on it was. Estimating the size of the take is Ai productive Strying to pry the identity of deep Throat from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Suffice to say thatty s la us tens of millions o dollars. Lawyers who get up to 1250 an hour did a land office business with 68 individuals and 20 corporations charged with crimes and who knows How Many others who sought Legal counsel because they feared they might be. Booksellers could fill a Section with confessions de lenses revelations and analyses. The government print ing office had volume upon volume of watergate testimony exhibits and  to sell. A record com Pany went to the supreme court hoping to be allowed to sell copies of White House tapes that brought an administration to ruin. Watergate the collection of baud tags not the scandal has taken its place As a tourist attraction alongside Soch Washington musts As the Lincoln me Morial the smithsonian and the pandas at the National zoo. How Many Rolls of film have captured the windows on the sixth floor of the watergate office building where the break in occurred even though the democratic party offices Are Long gone and bugging target Lawrence f. O Brien now guides the Fortune of professional Basket Ball the Motel across the Street a Howard Johnson s like any other gets a share of attention because that is where the buggers worked. The serious Money went to a chosen few. We begin with some writers. The 1976 edition of books in print has s3 entries under the heading of watergate. The list is not Complete be cause for example the biggest hardcover seller of themal Woodward and Bernstein s the final Day is listed in a different  Book and authors earned the Nixon judgment of trash but Simon and schuster sold 630,000 copies i hardcover an achievement that a spokesman says was nothing Short of phenomenal before roots. Sales figure for the paperback version Aren t Complete but there is a clue to what they might be. Woodstein a first Book Malthe president s men sold 280,000 copies in hardcover and 4.62 million in  Royalty rates that run to 15 per cent in the Best seller category plus movie rights both reporter became millionaires As Well As models for youngsters jamming journalism schools. The fastest Selling Book i be Ever seen in 14years was the White House transcripts All paper  says Michael Fox education director of the american booksellers association. The Bantam Issue of the White House released Tran scripts sold 1.9 million copies. Dell s version soldl.7 Mil lion. The books were grabbed up before it was known the transcripts were inaccurate and cosmetically edited. Blind ambition John Dean s confessional written after he served his prison term sold 223,600 copies at last ust ing. Leon Jaworski. Giving the prosecutor s Side Tut the bestseller lists with 205.000 copies of the bight and Iree Power. Lbs reporter Dan rather writing about Nixon i Palace guard racked up a paperback Sale of 1.038 Mil lion. 0 you can read about watergate from All  Nixon Side due next year will bring him an Esti mated $2  participant Side is represented by Dean Jeb Stuart Magruder Charles Colson and James w. Mccord with . Haldeman and John n. Mitchell yet to come. Mccord could t get a publisher so he had his a piece of tape printed himself. Haldeman after the recent Nixon Frost interviews spiced up the Sale of the prospective work by saying i have to Challenge president Nixon s Story of the  prosecution Side has weighed in with Jaworski s Book another by watergate trial lawyers Richard Benveniste and George Frampton and one by the prosecution staff press spokesman James Doyle. The Senate water Gate committee s majority counsel Samuel dash As Well As minority counsel Fred Thompson each have books. The observer Side leads off with Woodward and Bern Stein then comes Anthony Lukas Barry Sussman Theo Dore White George Higgins William satire Elizabeth Drew Jimmy Breslin Clark Mollenhoff Dan rather. Frank Mankiewicz and humorist Art  there s a wife s Side. Mrs. John Dean contributed to. Mrs. Jeb Magruder has a Book. Madeleine Edmond son wrote about the women of watergate. The scandal is looked at in other lesser known books from the left from constitutional aspects chronologically in three volumes from the philosophical Angle fro the aggression Side and even for what it reveals about the american capitalistic  Only key figure who has not yet entered the liter Ary lists is John j. Sirica the hero judge of watergate and he is thinking about it. All of course is not going into ban books. The Legal costs of watergate Are wondrous to contemplate once the disbarment ruined careers month Sand Yean spent in prison Are subtracted. Nixon s efforts to get custody of his papers and tape shave run up a Bill of More than $600.000 with his lawyers. The costs of fighting what his aides Call harassment suits Hare brought the total to nearly is million. While rabbi Baruch Koffs fund raising activities still were i High gear some $350,000 of that was paid. Nixon and his High command of Haldeman John Ehr Lichman or Mitchell did t choose Small time Rookie Law yers to be their courtroom gladiators and neither did the others caught up in the watergate swirl. John Wilson head of Haldeman s defense team is on of Washington s sup lawyers. He came to the watergate coverup trial every Day in his chauffeured limousine. It does t take much to guess that his Bill to Haldeman exceeded a half million dollars. How much of it has Bee paid in t known. Haldeman got $100,000 for submitting to Mike Wallace s questions on lbs 60  his conviction in the cover up trial before the sex monday june 13, 1977 pensive trips through the appeals court to the supreme court Ehrlichman complained that his Battery of Legal Talent Cost More than $400,000. That quite Likely was Factor in Ehrlichman s decision to quit fighting and voluntarily begin his prison term. Soon after his conviction he left wife and Home in Seattle and went to new Mexico where he turned out a Good Selling novel the company which then was sold for a television mini series. He s at work on another Book and his lawyers undoubtedly Are smiling. John Mitchell s Tab with crack trial lawyer William  surely exceeded the $500,000 figure. That is Addi Tion to the $471j90 Bill Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary Maurice stans ran up in the Vesco trial paid for by the Nixon re election  All three men and the dozens of others the trials were Only the tip of  were hearings upon hearings and enough paper used to denude a Forest. There were and Are civil suits to be settled depositions to be taken lawyers to be sent to far away cities at clients expense and a lot of Bills Tob paid. Putting clients on the cuff can have Happy endings. The four cuban americans arrested inside watergate with James w. Mccordjr. Had some help from fund raising efforts in Miami. Their lawyer Daniel e. Schultz sued the Nixon re election committee claiming his clients had been duped into thinking they were serving the govern ment. The committee settled for $200,000. The biggest Legal Mil went to the taxpayer. In it four years of existence the special watergate prosecution Force received about $1 million and spent most of it. That does t include what the Justice department has had to spend and still is spending to defend Nixon it Al in salts involving their official capacities. Watergate renown has paid off on the lecture circuit for Dean and e. Howard Hunt for both it created new careers. For example Dean As a correspondent for Roll ing Stone at the Republican National convention an Effort incidentally that got Earl Butts fired As Secretary of agriculture. And Hunt As a seller of prison produced paintings to pay his $10,000 Fine As a Magazine columnist and As an author whose earlier potboiler mysteries retained a weak pulse when he became watergate notorious. Even g. Gordon Liddy who went to prison for an extra18 months for his silence talked briefly for the cameras for $15,000 but about himself not  Ruth the third in a succession of special prosecutors commented on the closing of the special prosecutor s office recently my guess is that by the Lime All the lawyers defendants former presidents and former prosecutors get through talking and writing about watergate the taxes on the royalties will pay for what we  the stars and stripes Page 13