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However, Freund stressed that "the issue is in another dimension" in which Nixon is under a political and moral obligation to cooperate with the Senate committee. Nixon refused to testify in Saturday's letter to Senator Sam J. Ervin (D-N.C.), the committee's chairman...
...Ervin Committee hearings will resume today as former Attorney General John N. Mitchell testifies about his role in the ever-widening Watergate scandal. Meanwhile, the controversy surrounding President Nixon's silence in the affair broadened yesterday as bipartisan criticism of Nixon's refusal to appear before the Committee erupted...
...Saturday President Nixon sent a personal letter to committee chairman Sam J. Ervin (D-N.C.) in which he invoked separation of powers in affirming his refusal to appear before the body under any conditions. He also stated that access to all Presidential papers was out of the question, even if subpoenaed by the Ervin Committee...
During his long week before the Ervin committee, John Dean made frequent reference to a TIME story last spring that provoked White House consternation. The background: On Feb. 22 Correspondent Sandy Smith filed an exclusive report stating that three years earlier Attorney General John Mitchell had authorized FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to place taps on the phones of a number of Washington newsmen. Two days later, Smith discovered that phones of a number of White House staffers had also been bugged, apparently in an Administration effort to trace leaks to reporters...
...problem before White House aides last October was how to respond to news reports that Dwight Chapin, then the President's appointments secretary, had hired Lawyer Donald Segretti and directed him in political sabotage. John Dean last week supplied the Ervin committee with a transcript of a "practice session" in which four officials coached Ronald Ziegler...