Watergate Hearings - John Mitchell and John Dean
Watergate Hearings - John Mitchell and John Dean
(08:11:10) Opens to Campaign Director JOHN MITCHELL describing a phone conversation he had with President NIXON on June 20, 1972 about the botched Watergate break-in in which he says Nixon told him it was ridiculous he didn't have more control over his employees, Mitchell then goes on to list other phone conversations he had with White House associates after the break-in hit the press (08:15:35) Senator HERMAN TALMADGE and Mitchell discuss a discrepancy between Mitchell's testimony and that of JAMES MAGRUDER over whether or not Mitchell requested that the Attorney General be contacted to get Watergate burglar JAMES McCORD out of jail (08:17:12) Skip in footage - Mitchell is asked why Nixon did not waive executive privilidge (08:18:29) Two consecutive skips in footage, back 10 seconds - Talmadge asks Mitchell if he had recommended against Dean's testimony before a grand jury - Mitchell reponds yes, that if Dean had dones so it would have revealed all the White House horrors (08:20:28) Talmadge asks Mitchell if he made the statement, as alleged by witness JOHN DEAN, that the Watergate operation would be at least a few times removed from White House responsibility - Mitchell denies this statement, his denial is cut off by a skip in the footage (08:20:59) Skip in footage - Mitchell and his counsel review court documents (08:21:36) Skip in footage, color intensifies - Testimony of John Dean in which he gives a great description of GORDON LIDDY's sales pitch to him, Magruder, and Mitchell about dirty campaign tactics he could put into action which include mugging and kidnapping squads to eliminate demonstration leaders, prostitutes for information reconaissance and to compromise the opposition, and surveilance and interception of transmitted audio information (08:24:30) Dean decribes Mitchell's reaction to Liddy's presentation, Dean says Mitchell told Liddy his plans were too expensive and over-blown, that he should come back with a revised plan and that Mitchell was most interested in combatting demonstrations - Dean adds that he thought this was the end of any such plan (08:25:55) Dean describes his encounter with a second meeting with G. GORDON LIDDY, Magruder, and Mitchell in which Liddy was presenting his revised intelligence plan, Dean says he told the meeting to disband as it was inappropriate and dangerous that it was being held in the office of the Attorney General (Mitchell) - Dean adds that he does not know who continued to pursue Liddy's plans, he says he himself wanted no part in them (08:27:22) Dean describes a meeting he had with Presidential Advisor H.R. HALDEMAN in which he told him about Liddy's plans and how he rejected them as the wrong way of doing things (08:28:09) Skip in footage - quick seen of Committee Chairman SAMUEL ERVIN being questioned by reporters outside the hearings room (08:28:22) Several skips in footage (08:28:29) Unidentified man confirms Vice Chairman HOWARD BAKER's question that Nixon knew by June 20, 1972 that members of the Committee to Re-elect the President were involved in the Watergate break-in (08:28:42) Skip in footage - above unidentified man speaks of someone's contact with Liddy and the Justice Department after the break-in (08:29:23) Two more skips in footage and tape ends