Watergate Hearings - John Dean (Part IV)
Watergate Hearings - John Dean (Part IV)
(07:31:32) Opens to JOHN DEAN, former Presidential Counsel, who is giving the background information, setting up the context of meeting he and other White House staffers had with President NIXON to discuss what they were going to do about the convicted Watergate burglars, he is answering the questions of Committee Vice Chairman HOWARD BAKER (07:33:55) Dean tells the story of the meeting with Nixon, in which he told Nixon that as the Watergate burglars face sentencing their demands for compensation are increasing and that in total $1 million was needed to satiate them - Dean gives a good description of Nixon's response that raising that money should not be a problem (07:37:46) Skip in footage - Dean is telling the committee of how he set up a meeting with Nixon over the phone to discuss possible implications of the Watergate investigation (07:40:00) Dean begins to detail the above meeting with Nixon in which he decides he will tell Nixon that the White House activities regarding the Watergate coverup of committing perjury and so forth were a cancer that was growing and killing the President (07:43:00) Dean reponds to Baker's request that he tell the committee what he told Nixon at this meeting about what Dean knew of the Watergate White House activities up to the time of the meeting - Dean gives a detailed account of his retelling the facts to Nixon of White House involvement in the Watergate affair dating up to June 17, 1972, mainly it centers around White House authorization of the operation (07:48:33) Dean goes on to detail what he told Nixon at the meeting of White House Watergate involvement post June 17, 1972 which includes paying of the burglars, coaching witnesses to perjury, improperly using White House funds - Dean is cut off by the tape's end