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...Stans still reports for work as finance committee chairman, although he cut his own $60,000 salary in half after he was indicted last spring for perjury and conspiracy. Chief Public Relations Man DeVan Shumway still collects $36,000 a year. He sits in his private office watching the Ervin hearings on a portable TV and grinding out denials and explanations. Ten other employees, including a lawyer, research assistant and treasurer, are still at work, devoting their days mostly to cleaning up the leftover details of the campaign...
...President Nixon does not release tapes of Watergate conversations recorded in his offices, Senate Select Committee Chairman Sam J. Ervin Jr. told TIME last week, "I would inform the President that the committee was going to hold him guilty...
...often done in his convoluted conduct throughout the Watergate revelations, the President might change his mind. But, recovered from pneumonia and working over the weekend in the solitude of Camp David, Nixon was, according to close aides, drafting a letter rejecting Ervin's request that he turn over tapes of conversations in which he discussed Watergate with his key associates and any other relevant presidential papers or documents...
...Nixon might well be acting from the loftiest of motives?to protect the principle of Executive privilege for both his own presidency and future ones. But he probably cannot succeed, either in the courts of law or, more significantly, in the court of public opinion. Ervin is undoubtedly correct in arguing that a refusal by Nixon to produce the relevant recordings will be taken to mean that they probably do not support his protestations of innocence in all of the wrongdoing related to Watergate...
Ultimate Evidence. Another possibility: the tapes might clearly exonerate Nixon. John Ehrlichman, who is scheduled to testify this week before the Ervin committee's television cameras, thinks so and predicted last week that the tapes "will be the ultimate evidence." Ehrlichman, the President's former Chief Domestic Affairs Adviser, confirmed that he had been completely unaware that his conversations with his boss had been recorded. He said that the tapes ought to be produced by the President. Although Ehrlichman thought he himself "may have said some things about some people to the President