Watergate Hearings - H.R. Haldeman (Part II)
Watergate Hearings - H.R. Haldeman (Part II)
(10:12:07) Opens to Majority Counsel SAM DASH questioning Presidential Advisor H. R. HALDEMAN (10:12:16) Skip in footage - Dash and Haldeman have a detailed discussion about Haldeman's access to White House tapes of meetings, Haldeman claims he did not/would not listen to meetings he was not present at (10:14:45) Dash and Haldeman discuss how Haldeman listened to a tape of a meeting between him, NIXON, and Presidential Counsel JOHN DEAN to check up on Dean's testimony about that meeting (10:17:45) Dash asks why Haldeman, under subpeona, did not turn over the tape or his notes from it (10:20:29) Skip in footage - Dash is in the midst of questioning Haldeman about money being requested by Whitewater associate HUNT (10:22:30) Dash questions Haldeman about the Lacoste meeting at which was the possibility of preventing the Senate Investigative Hearings was discussed by White House aides (10:24:38) Skip in footage - Vice Chairman HOWARD BAKER asks Haldeman how he could run such a "tight ship" and not know what was going on with Whitewater - Haldeman shuffles about saying he knew something was up but did not know the particulars (10:27:00) Bakers asks Haldeman, as the man closest to the President, what Nixon knew and when did he know it - Haldeman responds with the routine answer that Nixon found out about the Watergate after the fact through normal channels and that he knew that these were the autonomous actions of those involved (10:30:40) Baker asks Haldeman, more particularly what was Nixon's reaction upon finding out that two members, GORDON LIDDY and JAMES McCORD, from the Committee to Re-Elect the President were involved - Haldeman says Nixon could not comprehend how or why they would be involved in such a situation