Watergate Hearings - H.R. Haldeman, Staachan, Gray
Watergate Hearings - H.R. Haldeman, Staachan, Gray
(10:31:53) Opens to Presidential Advisor H.R. HALDEMAN being questioned about White House tapes by Senator TALMADGE - Talmadge reads from a statement issued by President NIXON to the committee that says that the tapes contain comments made in casual conversation that would be subject to interpretations other than what the president meant (10:33:21) Black screen followed by test pattern (10:31:31) Return to footage, a couple of seconds back - Talmadge asks Haldeman about $350,000 he authorized to go to the Committee to Re-elect the President, did Haldeman know it was going to support and defend the Watergate criminals (10:36:00) Talmadge gives the hypothetical situation of Haldeman running for elected office and having campaign funds, donated by citizens, given over to the defense of criminals, Talmadge asks if this isn't a violation of the public's trust (10:36:36) Skip in footage - Senator Edward Gurney asks about Haldeman's orders to destroy files (10:37:50) Black screen (10:37:58) Skip in footage, followed by black screen (10:38:23) Skip in footage - Majority Counsel SAM DASH questions Haldeman's assistant STAACHAN about his being ordered to destroy documents and which ones he actually destroyed (10:41:15) Staachan says he listed for Presidential Counsel JOHN DEAN the files/documents he destroyed (10:43:00) Staachan describes his giving word to Haldeman that he had destroyed a certain file (10:43:58) Skip in footage (10:44:30) Skip in footage - Director of the FBI GRAY reading opening statement in which he gives a lengthy description of receiving files from Dean for destruction, Gray says that one of the files contained a transmission linking the KENNEDY Administration to the killing of South Vietnam President DIEM