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Beginning about July 14, 1972, Dean testified, he made eight to twelve phone calls at Mitchell's behest to William J. Casey, then the chairman of the SEC. Dean said that he passed along his mentor's complaints that the SEC was using unfair and harassing tactics against Financier Robert Vesco. The Government has charged that on April 10, 1972, Vesco made a secret contribution of $200,000 to Nixon's 1972 campaign, and that in return Mitchell and Stans tried to hinder an SEC investigation into Vesco's alleged massive looting of Investors Overseas Services...
Late in October 1972, testified Dean, Mitchell phoned with a request: he wanted him to get Casey to postpone until after Election Day the appearance before the SEC of several of Vesco's subpoenaed staffers. According to Dean, Mitchell claimed that the sessions, scheduled for Nov. 2, 1972, were "just a further example of harassment. It will be very embarrassing for these secretaries [of Vesco's] to take the Fifth Amendment, and the whole thing is just something we don't need before the election...
After getting Mitchell's call, Dean said, he asked Casey: "Can you do something to get these [subpoenas] postponed?" The answer was no, but the witnesses took the Fifth, and, as it happened, nothing leaked about the Vesco contribution prior to the election...
...personal lawyer. Cook testified that while sitting in a rice field, he had used the occasion to hint very broadly to Stans that he would like to have the older man's backing when he tried to win the job of chairman of the SEC after Bill Casey's anticipated departure. At the same time, Cook said, he mentioned to Stans that as part of the investigation into Vesco's affairs, the SEC was trying to trace what had happened to $250,000 that seemed to have disappeared. Cook testified that he told Stans that he understood...
...March 3, 1973, with Stans' support, Cook gained his goal of succeeding Casey as chairman of the SEC. Four days later, he was seated across a table from Stans in the White House mess. Said Cook: "He looked at me and said, 'Brad, let's have one of those conversations that doesn't take place...