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...from past confrontations. Then, with unexpected suddenness, James McCord Jr., one of the convicted Watergate burglars, tried to tie the scandal to former Attorney General John Mitchell and to Richard Nixon: "I felt the President of the United States had set into motion this operation." It was, admittedly, only hearsay testimony, and Nixon, through his press secretary, once again vigorously denied his involvement. Even before the hearings started, however, the week had brought news that cast further doubt on the President's own role and on that of his aides. For months the President had cited Counsel John Dean...
...coverup, the assured and incisive McCord repeatedly asserted that former Attorney General John Mitchell had helped plan, approve and supervise a threefold campaign of political intrigue: electronic bugging, clandestine photography and political espionage. Again McCord's information came from others, mainly Hunt and Liddy, and thus was hearsay...
Nixon also said the hearsay evidence of witnesses testifying before the Ervin Watergate subcommittee "could...lead to a serious misunderstanding of those national security activities which, though totally unrelated to Watergate, have become entangled in the case." Despite the growing discreditment of his Administration. Nixon vowed not to resign in face of pressure...
Much of the testimony before the Ervin committee has been hearsay, and hearsay is inadmissible in judicial proceedings. But neither a senate hearing nor impeachment is a judicial procedure: they both are legislative matters. Hearsay constitutes acceptable testimony in political hearings and, though allowance has to be made for its possible inaccuracies, it provides useful direction for inquiry. It raises questions that men in the White House must answer...
...White House-directed burglary of psychiatric records in the Ellsberg case. It also was Dean who informed the prosecutors that there had been meetings in Attorney General Mitchell's office at which plans for the Watergate bugging were discussed. First mentioned by McCord, these meetings were mere hearsay until Dean confirmed that he had been present at them, along with Mitchell, Liddy and Magruder. Dean's revelations caused Magruder to admit that he had lied to the grand jury...