Watergate Hearings - John Mitchell
Watergate Hearings - John Mitchell
(07:50:37) Opens with Senator LOWELL WEICKER questioning Mr. YOLASUWITZ (?) about groups who he would investigate for the Committee to Re-elect the President (07:54:32) Skip in footage - Senator HERMAN TALMADGE questions JOHN MITCHELL, Mitchell reads from a transcript of court proceding in which he is questioned by TED KENNEDY, in the transcript Mitchell tells Kennedy he has no responsibility to his party - Talmadge then quotes the rest of the transcript in which Mitchell adds in response to Kennedy that he did have reponsibilities to Nixon's re-election campaign - Mitchell claims this was a misquote (07:59:00) Talmadge asks if Mitchell endorsed a document calling for the Committee to Re-elect the President to take over all White House support activities (08:00:58) Skip in footage, back one second - Talmadge submits several memorandums as evidence and Mitchell reviews them with his attorney (08:03:05) Skip in footage - Talmade and Mitchell again debate a discrepancy within Mitchell's testimony about whether or not he stated he had responsibility to the Republican party (08:04:40) Committee Chairman SAMUEL ERVINE clarifies this discrepancy for himself, that Mitchell's loyalties were with the re-election of the president and not with the party at large (08:05:15) Talmadge and Mitchell discuss the testimony of Mr. STANS, finance administator in the Committee, and when Mitchell took control of authorizing the spending of campaign funds (08:08:30) Talmadge asks Mitchell about monies authorized to go toward bail and legal support of the Watergate criminals - Mitchell says that the money that went to this use was not Committee money and therefore he did not authorized this expenditure - Mitchell claims that he heard the money came from the 1968 campaign and he cracks a joke about this