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...House could leak a news story on why the leaking of Government secrets is bad. Dean seemed to falter only under the persistent and skillful grilling of Senator Gurney...
...Gurney bore into Dean's admitted personal use of $4,850 in campaign money that was being kept in his office safe. Dean insisted he had deposited a check for that amount to cover it. Gurney produced a Dean bank-account statement showing that the check was not good at the time it was placed in the safe and said Dean could be guilty of embezzlement. Dean's lawyer sharply objected to that interpretation of law, and Dean said he had never had any intention not to repay the money. He was later partly rescued by Senator Sam Ervin...
...Gurney also surprised Dean on a minor confusion about the hotel in which he had discussed hush funds with Nixon's attorney Kalmbach. Was it Washington's Mayflower Hotel, as he had testified, even though Kalmbach had been registered on that date at the Statler Hilton? After some sparring, Dean, prompted by his lawyer, said that he often confused the two and could have been mistaken, since the Statler Hilton's coffee shop is called the Mayflower...
...moments later, Florida Republican Edward Gurney sharply protested: "I for one have not appreciated the harassment of this witness by the chairman. I think this Senate committee ought to act in fairness...
Republican Senator Edward Gurney, who has considerable sympathy for the President's position, wrote Ervin last week, suggesting that the committee immediately leapfrog to the central question-how involved, if at all, is Nixon? "To continue the present leisurely pace opens us up to severe criticism," he argued. "Both the President and the nation deserve better than this." Special Prosecutor Cox is also unhappy with the Senate hearings, but for other reasons. Last week he told the committee's chief counsel, Samuel Dash, that the televised proceedings might easily prejudice the outcome of prosecutions arising from the grand...