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...part of its impeachment inquiry, the House Judiciary Committee received information from staff investigators indicating that Kissinger actually requested several of the wiretaps and received at least 54 reports based on them. According to Democratic Representative Joshua Eilberg, the material showed that H.R. Haldeman, then White House chief of staff, told Attorney General John Mitchell that Kissinger had specifically asked for the wiretapping of several people. Such wiretapping for national security purposes would have been legal but, in the opinion of several Judiciary Committee members, the taps produced no information bearing on security. Since the taps did turn up some...
...staff presentation of evidence and then voted with out calling witnesses. "St. Clair could keep every witness on the stand for three days," one top Democrat warned. But Rodino replied that Republicans on the committee will insist that such witnesses as John Dean, Charles Colson, John Ehrlichman, H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman and John Mitchell be called and tested under crossexamination. Rodino advised that this should be permitted, but that tight controls, including a one-day limit for each witness, should be imposed...
...learned of John Mitchell's approval of payments to the original Watergate defendants. Colson promptly warned the President that these payoffs were taking place. Nixon's alleged reply: "What do you mean? Mitchell says he is innocent." Colson claims that he then told Chief of Staff Haldeman that Mitchell must step forward and take the blame for the payoffs. According to Colson, Haldeman answered: "If Mitchell goes, he's going to take you with him." Colson said he was not worried about that. He asserts that he also warned Ehrlichman and Dean about the cover...
When Nixon finally accepted the resignations of Ehrlichman and Haldeman in April 1973, Colson now says, the President told him: "God bless you-you were right all along." Colson may, however, put his statements about the President in a less damaging light under crossexamination...