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...Fire. Some jurors found Dean to be an impressive witness during his testimony, which bore on three of the perjury counts against Mitchell. But they were put off by his admission that he was awaiting sentencing for his confession of guilt on conspiracy to obstruct justice in the Watergate coverup. Moreover, they were unsettled by the fact that he admitted under cross-examination that he hoped his performance at the Mitchell-Stans trial would be noted by the judge who would mete out his punishment. Clarence Brown, a postal employee, expressed his fellow jurors' feelings: "I liked John Dean...
...White House also gave no sign that it would comply with the Judiciary Committee's request for tapes of 142 additional conversations between Nixon and aides. The tapes bear on the Watergate coverup, the Administration's 1971 decision to increase milk-price supports and its antitrust settlement with ITT that year. St. Clair urged the committee to study the transcripts before demanding more evidence. He declined to say how the White House would respond if the committee pressed...
Nixon was congratulating him on succeeding in "containing" the case to the seven through the illegal coverup...
...coverup, he said that?well, basically, it's a second crime. Isn't that right, John? ... Do you think they would keep going on the cover-up even if Mitchell went...
Magruder has told his revised story, implicating Dean and Mitchell, to the prosecutors. Mitchell has rejected Ehrlichman's subtle pitch that he consider shouldering the blame. The scenario is falling apart. Dean has started telling federal prosecutors what he knew about the break-in and coverup. He has implicated Mitchell, Ehrlichman and Haldeman. That leaves the President a solitary, frustrated figure trying to hold the remaining pieces together...