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...four weeks of hearings, the Senate committee, chaired by North Carolina's wily Sam Ervin Jr., has carefully prepared for this climactic moment. The orderly progression of witnesses has moved from the naive young Nixon organizers who seemed genuinely betrayed by the unethical behavior of their superiors to those higher officials actually involved in the lies and deceptions. The stage for Dean's testimony was most directly and dramatically set last week by Jeb Stuart Magruder, the affable, intelligent former deputy director of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Testifying briskly and matter-of-factly...
Pressed by the Ervin committee's Republican vice chairman, Howard Baker, Magruder explained that the reluctance to accept the plan stemmed from the fact that "it was illegal and it was inappropriate and it may not work...
Near the end of his testimony, Magruder said that he was "not going to lay down and die" because of his participation in Watergate. "I think I will rehabilitate myself ... and I hope to be able to live a useful life." Impressed, Ervin reminded Magruder of a poem reading: "Each night I burn the records of the day. At sunrise every soul is born again." And he told Magruder that he had "the greatest asset that any man can have-you have a wife who stands behind you in the shadows where the sun shines...
...Ervin also seized on a relatively minor matter: the allocation of some $50,-000 in Nixon campaign cash to a Maryland Republican group holding a dinner for Vice President Spiro Agnew. Stans said this money was given in cash so it could be mingled with the receipts from the dinner and make it appear that the affair was more successful than...
...Ervin's committee was considering a subpoena of White House logs listing the disputed meetings between Nixon and Counsel John Dean. The White House first refused to turn over the logs -a move it once again called "constitutionally inappropriate"-then, after a change of heart, the Administration agreed to produce the documents...