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...Magruder's testimony that there had been a decision in Mitchell's apartment on June 19 that Magruder should burn his records on the wiretapping results, code-named Gemstone. He denied Dean's allegation that he had asked Dean to seek the approval of Ehrlichman and Haldeman in enlisting the help of Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's personal attorney, to raise and disburse payments to the arrested wiretappers. He scoffed at Dean's charge that he and other Nixon associates talked about out-of-court approaches to a Washington federal judge to persuade him to delay...
...contention that he had told Dean that convicted Wiretapper E. Howard Hunt had been assured of Executive clemency and that the same assurance could thus be given to another restive defendant, James McCord. Also untrue, said Mitchell, was Dean's claim that Mitchell had told Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Dean at a meeting on March 22 that "Hunt's money problem had been taken care of"-a reference to Hunt's attempts to blackmail the White House. He also contradicted Magruder's report that he had told Magruder on March 27 to expect Executive clemency if Magruder...
...Mitchell told it, he was not part of any concerted, conspiratorial effort to cover up any of the Watergate-related activities. He and other Nixon committee officials, as well as such White House aides as Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Colson and Dean, simply shared a common view: "We weren't volunteering anything. We wanted to keep...
...Inouye argued that the appointment of the special prosecutor was resisted by the White House and resulted from congressional pressure. Dean was later fired, but when Haldeman and Ehrlichman resigned, said Inouye, "the President most reluctantly accepted this and said publicly that these were the two finest men he has ever known...
...appear before the Senate Watergate committee may well back John Mitchell's story that President Nixon was long unaware of his aides' involvement in the breakin, they are expected to implicate each other as well as Mitchell in the coverup. These witnesses include Herbert W. Kalmbach, H.R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Gordon Strachan. Their testimony would leave the President with few wholly untarnished defenders in a position to know what the President might have known...