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...President Nixon is "up to his ears" in the Watergate mess. Said Proxmire: the secondhand press accounts of what White House Counsel John W. Dean III told federal investigators represent a "McCarthyistic destruction of the President." Vice President Spiro Agnew followed with an attack on the publication of anonymous "hearsay" as "a very short jump from McCarthyism...
...Hearsay Evidence...
During four-and-a-half hours of testimony in the morning and afternoon, Senator Sam Ervin Jr. (D-N.C.), chairman of the select committee, continually emphasized that most of McCord's testimony involved hearsay evidence--information obtained second hand--which was admissible only to establish McCord's motives for participating in the Watergate conspiracy...
...Clark MacGregor, then chief of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, said: "Using innuendo, third-person hearsay, unsubstantiated charges, anonymous sources and huge scare headlines, the [Washington] Post has maliciously sought to give the appearance of a direct connection between the White House and the Watergate, a charge which the Post knows-and a half a dozen investigations have found-to be false...
...March 29, former Attorney General John Mitchell said: "I deeply resent the slanderous and false statements about me concerning the Watergate matter reported as being based on hearsay and leaked out. I have previously denied any prior knowledge of or involvement in the Watergate affair and again reaffirm such denials...