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That indignation ill-fitted a man who, with his lawyers, had earlier used the calculated news leak prolifically and adroitly in his struggle to gain immunity against criminal prosecution. His adamant position also tempted the Ervin committee to cite him for contempt of the Senate. But the committee, in rare agreement with a balky witness, conceded that Dean had every right to object. Dean felt that the unfavorable leaks could influence people to doubt him before hearing him out, while the sketchy advance revelations of his charges could reduce their impact. Stung by all of the leaks, Chairman Ervin turned...
...that bitter backstage struggle to influence the public's view of Dean, the White House fed some 50 questions to the staff of the Ervin committee-questions that Dean would presumably have difficulty handling. One of them, sprung on Dean in his private staff grilling, was whether he had used Nixon campaign funds to finance his honeymoon last fall. He conceded that he had-and this was promptly leaked to the press. Nixon associates also supplied the committee with a White House summary of conversations between Dean and Nixon that conflicted with Dean's account; this...
...President, by this account, told Dean: "What makes you think he would be satisfied with that?" Nixon "stated it was blackmail, that it was wrong, that it would not work, that the truth would come out anyway." Dean, on the other hand, told the Ervin staff that Hunt had demanded $72,000 in hush money, plus $50,000 in legal fees-and that Ehrlichman assured him that John Mitchell had arranged for paying the money to the blackmailer...
Personal Use. The week's most damaging development to Dean was his admission before the Ervin staff that he had taken $4,850 to finance his honeymoon from a leftover 1968 Nixon campaign fund of $ 15,200. He had been given the money to hold while determining whether there were any legal restrictions on its use in the 1972 campaign. According to one committee source, the question of whether Dean had taken the money was asked by Minority Counsel Thompson "out of the blue." Dean was said to have readily admitted using the money, placing either a personal I.O.U...
...what point, and to what extent, Dean and the other involved officials have decided to stop lying and tell the truth. Not to be a turncoat, in this sense, is to continue the deception. Magruder, for one, openly admitted his perjury but proved a highly credible witness before the Ervin committee, apparently convinced that further lying was both wrong and pointless. Dean, directly challenging the President and his top aides, would seem foolhardy indeed if he is now accusing them with false testimony...