| Watergate Hearings - Hugh Sloan (Part II) | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 150 |
| Catalog #: | 446731 | |
| Clip Number: | 446731-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | N/A | |
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| Location: | Senate Caucus Room | |
| Year Shot: | 1973 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | GOVERNMENT: Hearings, Watergate | |
| Description: | (04:23:04) Opens to testimony of HUGH SLOAN, Former Treasurer of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, who is explaining for Counsel Majority SAM DASH with a chart, the pay roll of the Committee - the chart lists Committee members names and puts dollar figures next to them, Sloan begins discussing what GORDON LIDDY was paid
(04:26:00) Sloan describes an incident in which he questioned an $83,000 pay request by Liddy, he says that Liddy confirmed with Attorney General JOHN MITCHELL that such large requests were to be honored and that Liddy was to be given the money, Sloan says he was informed by Liddy upon asking what the money was for "I do not want to know and you don't want to know" (04:27:38) Skip in footage, jump in time code - Senator HOWARD BAKER asks Sloan about the beginning of the investigation of the Committee about the Watergate affair - Baker says that the first interview he conducted about it was with Mr. LAROO (?) who was a member of the Committee conducting an internal investigation, Laroo was primarily concerned in his interview with Sloan with the Committee's financing of Liddy (04:31:00) Sloan discusses other interviews he conducted about Watergate, one of which he volunteered for feeling that the severity of the Watergate affair called for him to do so (04:32:20) Sloan discusses his participation in the FBI investigation - the FBI's only concern was a Mr. BALWIN (?) (04:34:20) Sloan discusses his second meeting with the FBI, after his resigntation, and how at this meeting he discussed a wider variety of issues surrounding the Watergate affair (04:38:40) Skip in footage - Baker asks about Sloan's relationship to Mr. STANS and Attorney General Mitchell - Sloan discusses one meeting with Stans and how at the meeting Stans had voiced frustration over the campaign and said that he and Mitchell were to have no affiliation with the finances of the Committee (04:40:59) Committee Chairman SAM ERVIN questions Sloan extensively about his role in the Committee financing and his working relationship to Mr. STANS, Sloan says that as a finance administrator his job did not extend into the political operations of the Committee, Sloan gives dollar figures of money kept in safes | |
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