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This brought protests from the White House. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler charged that such reports were based "on hearsay, character assassination, innuendo or guilt by association." A White House release quoted Chapin as calling the reports "fundamentally inaccurate." Clark MacGregor, Nixon's campaign manager, insisted that "Dwight Chapin just simply was not involved in any way." He said such stories were inspired by "George McGovern and his partner in mudslinging, the Washington Post...
...TIME report on the Watergate affair draws upon the rankest form of unsubstantiated hearsay to attempt to connect Mr. Mitchell and me to the incident. That connection is totally false. No TIME reporter attempted to contact me or Mr. Mitchell. Responsible journalists invariably try to verify the accuracy of an allegation-certainly one this serious-before publication. Had I had the opportunity, I would have most emphatically denied the implication of the story. Mr. Mitchell has also emphatically denied its allegations...
...Mitchell and myself is based entirely on one statement which you carry as an apparent direct, first-hand quotation from Mr. Hunt. Hunt has publicly denied that he made such a statement. It is not a first-hand quotation and even if it were firsthand, the statement would be hearsay. It is perhaps second, third-or fourth-hand hearsay...
...took a 15-man advisory committee seven years to draft the new federal rules. They will hardly revolutionize U.S. courtrooms; what they will do is permit a wider range of evidence. The biggest change is a "broader discretion to admit hearsay," says Stanford Law Professor John Kaplan. Hearsay-generally any information to which a witness cannot testify of his own firsthand knowledge-has traditionally been forbidden except in certain specified circumstances (for example, statements made by a person against his own interest). Now a judge may admit any hearsay having "circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness...
...claimed that the news stories were politically motivated. "We're not gonna play that game," he said. Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler denied that anyone at the White House had "directed acts of sabotage, spying or espionage" against the Democrats and charged that the stories were based on "hearsay, character assassination, innuendo and guilt by association." Clark MacGregor, Nixon's campaign director, angrily denounced the Post in particular for using "huge scare headlines" and acting "maliciously" and with "hypocrisy" to link the White House to such political espionage. Uncharacteristically, the usually candid MacGregor did not allow newsmen...