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DEAN gave his version in testimony to Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee last June 25. Denied access to his White House files and working from memory, Dean at the time mistakenly thought that much of the crucial conversation had taken place on March 13 rather than on March 21. Dean testified: "I told the President about the fact that there were money demands being made by the seven convicted defendants . . . I told the President that there was no money to pay these individuals to meet their demands. He asked me how much it would cost. I told...
...transferring White House men to key department and agency posts. It was Strachan who startled the Ervin committee by advising young people who were considering government work: "Stay away." He is charged with conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and one count of lying to a grand jury...
...most intriguing detail in the indictment was one of the counts against Haldeman. In his televised testimony before the Ervin committee last July 30 and 31, Haldeman told of listening to a tape of a conversation among Nixon, John Dean and, for a time, himself that had taken place on March 21, 1973. The indictment contends that Haldeman committed perjury when he related his version of what the tape records. Since the jurors have heard the tape, the conclusion is inescapable that it does not confirm Haldeman's testimony...
...perjury by testifying publicly that the tape contained those five words of Nixon's if, indeed, it did not? One answer may lie in the fact that Haldeman was testifying only a couple of weeks after the existence of the secret Nixon taping system had been revealed to the Ervin committee. Nixon later fought vainly on two court levels to withhold his tapes from Archibald Cox, then the Watergate special prosecutor. He yielded seven of them, including the one of the March 21 meeting, only after the public uproar that followed his firing of Cox, who was seeking the tapes...
...nation's former chief law enforcement official was charged, too, with lying to Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee in his public testimony last July. The indictment contends that he falsely denied having even heard about the existence of the Gemstone wiretap transcripts when it was suggested on June 19, 1972, that they be destroyed...