Watergate Hearings - Jeb Stuart Magruder (Part II)
Watergate Hearings - Jeb Stuart Magruder (Part II)
(05:51:31) Shot opens with Majority Counsel SAM DASH questioning JEB STUART MAGRUDER of the Committee to Re-elect the President about the second Watergate break in - Magruder describes first hearing about the botched break in over the phone in California from GORDON LIDDY (05:52:48) Skip in footage - Magruder explains why he thought there might have been a double agent in the Watergate break-in crew and how as a result he had files hidden (05:53:26) Skip in footage - Magruder gives more testimony of botched break-in aftermath (05:53:53) Skip in footage - Back to Magruder describing his first hearing about the Watergate crew's arrest, his relaying this information to Mr. LARUE (?) and JOHN MITCHELL (former Attorney General) and how they attempted to get the current Attorney General to let out their Watergate prisoners, he would not do it (05:56:38) Magruder explains why he thought there might have been a double agent in the Watergate break-in crew and how as a result he had files hidden, particularily the file detailing the Watergate break-in plan (05:57:40) Magruder mentions the money that was found on the burglars and gives accounts of the information he relayed to all the people connected with the Committee and the Watergate affair (05:58:47) Magruder tells about his meeting with the Committee members upon returning to D.C. from California: Mr. Liddy, JOHN DEAN, HUGH SLOAN, and Mr. STRAHN (?) (05:59:30) Magruder tells about meeting with the higher officials involved: Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Larue, ROBERT MARDIAN, and Mr. Dean and how at this meeting they decided to destroy the Watergate plan file (06:00:28) Magruder describes Dean's relationship to the Committee and Whitewater affair (06:01:08) Magruder gives an account of what files he had destroyed (06:01:55) Magruder gives a long account of his meetings after the botched break-in with Sloan at which he suggested to Sloan that he might want to commit perjury to protect himself from being held accountable for the money, that he as committee treasurer, had given to Liddy (because there was no original receipt for this money from when the Committee received it as campaign donations), Magruder also says that at these meetings he kept trying and finally succeeded in getting Sloan to tell him how much money Liddy had been given, $200,000, which Magruder says was way too much (06:04:28) Skip in footage - Dash asks why the high ranking officials involved in Watergate decided to try to cut off the chain of command at Liddy and publicly blame him for the break-in - Magruder explains (06:07:00) Dash and Magruder discuss the investigations that followed and Magruder's appearance before two grand juries, they then go on to talk about Mr. Dean's role in possibly coaching Magruder for his grand jury appearances and whether or not Dean was around as a representative of the White House (06:09:45) Magruder gives details of prepping he did for a grand jury appearance in which he, Dean and Mitchell agreed on a story about the meetings in which they discussed and approved the Watergate plan