Watergate Hearings - John Ehrlichman (Part II)
Watergate Hearings - John Ehrlichman (Part II)
(08:30:26) Opens to JOHN EHRLICHMAN, Presidential advisor, answering the questions of Majority Counsel SAM DASH about the HOWARD HUNT and GORDON LIDDY break-in of DANIEL ELLSBERG's psychiatrist's office, Ehrlichman says it happened labor day weekend of 1971 (08:31:38) Dash and Ehrlichman discuss the so-called Sandwich Plan (08:33:15) Dash asks Ehrlichman to confirm that the above activities show the White House to be involved in intelligence gathering activities to preserve internal security (08:35:07) Skip in footage - Dash asks if Ehrlichman was aware of the feeling by the President for the need to improve intelligence agencies for sake of internal security - Ehrlichman responds yes and talks about how the White House formed a small agency which worked in the Judicial branch of government and gathered and shared information from federal and state intelligence and law enforcement agencies, of importance to this group was monitoring demonstrations (08:37:05) Dash asks if Ehrlichman knew about the Houston Plan - Ehrlichman said he was at a meeting with various federal agency heads including J. EDGAR HOOVER which discussed the plan - Dash and Ehrlichman discuss the meeting, why Dash was there and why Hoover did not support the plan (08:40:40) Skip in footage, back 15 seconds - Dash asks if Ehrlichman was ever involved in the set up of an unit in the White House for the purpose of determining if leaks occurred in security areas (08:42:36) Skip in footage - Committee Chairman SAMUEL ERVIN questions Ehrlichman (08:44:09) Skip in footage, 10 seconds back - Ervin questions Ehrlichman about his relationship with a Mr. KALMBACH of the Committee to Re-elect the President and the clandestine funding of the defense of the Watergate burglars (08:48:34) Skip in footage - Ervin and Ehrlichman and Ehrlichman's Counsel discuss the Constitutionality of the break-in of Ellsburg's psychiatrist's office - this picks up on WPA #163