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...helping confine the Watergate indictments to seven low-level operatives; this implied that Nixon must have known that higher officials, but not necessarily just who or in what way, were involved. In fact, said Dean, the President on Feb. 27, 1973, called his top aides, John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman, "principals in the matter...
...also reported that Dean told Nixon that he [Dean] was legally implicated in the cover-up and the President replied, "Oh, John, you have no problem." This is precisely what Dean had testified that Nixon had told him. The summary quotes Nixon as asking "Is Bob involved?" referring to Haldeman. Dean had not mentioned such a question, but it would not be unnatural for Nixon to ask it as Dean ran through the list of those he thought were implicated-nor would the question conclusively mean that Nixon did not know of any Haldeman involvement...
Other quotes from the White House summary are equally inconclusive. A discussion of raising hush money of up to $1,000,000 and granting Executive clemency, which Dean had thought occurred on March 13, actually took place, according to the White House, on March 21. Haldeman, who had listened to the March 21 tape, had testified to this pos sible confusion of dates by Dean. Denied access to his files in the White House, Dean largely constructed his remarkably detailed account from memory. There are two serious discrepancies between Dean's testimony and the White House summary, however...
County, is confident of re-election because he spoke out early on Watergate. "I urged that the President not spread Executive privilege around long before anyone else," he says. "I called upon him to get rid of Haldeman and Ehrlichman long before they finally left. I urged him to release the tapes when their existence first became known...
...could not recall what, if anything, had been withdrawn or put into it. Nor could he remember why, as the log showed, he opened it again at 2:05 a.m. and closed it at 2:11. Bull earlier had been startled by one Ben-Veniste question: "Was Mr. Haldeman at Key Biscayne at the time?" If he was, said Bull, "I did not see him." The prosecutor admitted that the question was a shot in the dark; he had no information that Haldeman had been in Florida then...