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...more significant queries for Nixon raised by the Dean testimony are these: Did he discuss Executive clemency with Ehrlichman and Colson, as Dean claims? Did he congratulate Dean on helping to limit the Watergate indictments? Did he scoff at the $1,000,000 in payoff money, as the White House claims? Is there a tape, as Dean suspected, of the meeting in which Nixon claimed to have been joking about the $1,000,000 in silence money...
...promised Executive clemency. He said that he had discussed this matter with Ehrlichman and, contrary to instructions that Ehrlichman had given Colson not to talk to the President about it, that Colson had also discussed it with him later. He expressed some annoyance at this...
...Colson, the ubiquitous former White House aide, had spoken to a reporter not only about such "illegal" funds, but also about Weicker's being a "disloyal" Republican. Weicker announced that he had asked Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox to investigate the matter...
...Colson has been consistently critical of Dean and Mitchell, and to a lesser degree of Haldeman and Ehrlichman (he calls them "Hans and Fritz"). He admits that he began writing memos to protect himself as soon as Hunt's snooping became known. "The headline was out, COLSON AIDE TIED TO WATERGATE, and I figured I'd be the guy to take it up to the ass. So I dictated all I could remember. If I had been up to some skulduggery, why would I admit the [Hunt] call and put it into a memorandum?" Added Colson...
Dean said the list was compiled in mid-1971 by the office of Charles W. Colson, then a special White House counselor. Dean also released a list of what he said were the Administration's top 20 "political enemies." No Harvard officials were on this list...