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...dollars or more. He told me that that was no problem, and he also looked over at Haldeman and repeated the statement. The President then referred to the fact that Hunt had been promised Executive clemency. He said that he had discussed the matter with Ehrlichman and that [Charles] Colson had also discussed it with him later. He expressed some annoyance at this...
...planning meetings and recounted a report he said he made to me regarding the second of those meetings. He felt Magruder was fully aware of the operation, but he was not sure about Mitchell. He said that his only concerns regarding the White House were in relation to the Colson phone call to Magruder, which might indicate White House pressure, and the possibility that Haldeman got some of the fruits of the bugging via Strachan...
...Regarding the post-June 17th situation, he indicated concern about two problems: money and clemency. He said that Colson had said something to [E. Howard] Hunt about clemency. The President confirmed that he could not offer clemency, and Dean agreed. Dean said that Kalmbach had raised money for the defendants' lawyers' fees, that Haldeman had okayed the return of the $350,000 to the committee, and that Dean had handled the dealings between the parties...
...Mitchell told it, he was not part of any concerted, conspiratorial effort to cover up any of the Watergate-related activities. He and other Nixon committee officials, as well as such White House aides as Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Colson and Dean, simply shared a common view: "We weren't volunteering anything. We wanted to keep...
EHRLICHMAN. He will admit giving Kalmbach "perfunctory" approval to raise money for the defendants but say that he did so partly because "Mitchell had some interest in making sure that the defendants were well defended." Ehrlichman will express suspicions, similar to those of Mitchell and Dean, that Colson had a role in pushing the Watergate wiretapping plans. But Ehrlichman will claim that he personally took no part in cover-up activities and kept urging that anyone involved "make a clean breast of it." He was told that Mitchell "effectively threw blocks" at any such disclosure. Ehrlichman will also corroborate Dean...