Word: counselâ
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...John W. Dean III, who had been fired by the President as his chief counsel???ostensibly because he seemed hopelessly enmeshed in the Watergate concealments?told federal investigators that Nixon had personally congratulated him for helping cover up broad Nixon Administration involvement in the wiretapping. Dean claimed this had happened when he was called to Nixon's office last September, shortly after indictments were returned by a federal grand jury against only the seven men arrested at the time of the Watergate breakin. Dean described the meeting?in one version also attended by Bob Haldeman?as one full of "smiles...
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