Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities June 28, 1973. Testimony of John Dean.
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities June 28, 1973. Testimony of John Dean.
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities June 28, 1973 - Testimony of John Dean.
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities June 28, 1973. Testimony of John Dean.
Senator Howard Baker (R Tennessee). I think we are getting better at this thing now. I am trying to organize the structure of it. Let us take the September 15 meeting and let us analyze it rather very closely if you will, Mr. Dean. And I understand this is necessarily redundant and that it has been covered at rather great length. But would you bear with me long enough to describe it in as much detail as you can conjure up the meeting of September 15th with the President? John Dean. I am sorry, Senator. I was reading some notes here and I did not, did you want me to repeat, to you Senator Howard Baker (R Tennessee). What I want to do now, we have had a general overview of the situation. John Dean. Yes. Senator Howard Baker (R Tennessee). I am going to try now to focus entirely on the meeting of September 15. John Dean. Right Senator Howard Baker (R Tennessee). And I have an ambition to focus sharply on it in order to disclose as much information as possible about the September 15 meeting. And what I want to do is to test, once again, not the credibility of your testimony, but the quality of the evidence. That is, is it direct evidence? John Dean. I understand. Senator Howard Baker (R Tennessee). Hearsay evidence or any circumstantial evidence related to the September 15 meeting, so take a little time with it, if you will. John Dean. All right.
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities June 28, 1973. Testimony of John Dean.
John Dean. During the morning of the 15th the indictments had been handed down. I think there was a general sigh of relief at the White House. I had no idea that I was going to be called to the President's office. Mr. Haldeman was quite aware of the fact that I had spent a great deal of time, that he had spent a great deal of time, that Mr. Ehrlichman had spent a great deal of time, on this matter. In the late afternoon I received a call requesting I come to the President's office. Senator Howard Baker (R Tennessee). Do you know who made the call? John Dean. The call came to my secretary, as I recall, and she said, "You have been asked to come to the oval office" so I don t know who called but it was one of the secretaries who conveyed those types of messages. Senator Howard Baker (R Tennessee). All right, go ahead, sir,
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities June 28, 1973. Testimony of John Dean.
John Dean. When I entered the office I can recall that, you have been in the office, you know the way there are two chairs on each side of the President's desk. Senator Howard Baker (R Tennessee). You are speaking of the oval office? John Dean. Of the oval office. As you face the President on the left-hand chair Mr. Haldeman was sitting and they had obviously been immersed in a conversation and the President asked me to come in and I stood there for or a moment. He said, "Sit down" and I sat on a chair on the other side. Senator Howard Baker (R Tennessee). You sat in the right-hand chair? John Dean. I sat on the right-hand chair. Senator Howard Baker (R Tennessee). That s the one he usually says no to, but go ahead. John Dean. I was unaware of that. Senator Howard Baker (R Tennessee). Go ahead, Mr. Dean.