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...tell you, John, the thing about all this that has concerned me is dragging the damn thing out. And having it to be the only issue in town. Now the thing to do now, have done. Indict Mitchell and the rest and there'll be a horrible two weeks?a horrible, terrible scandal, worse than Teapot Dome and so forth. And it doesn't have anything to do with Teapot...
...Well that does protect you a lot, because if they don't indict some of us then you have a cover-up problem...
...Sirica, demanded tapes of 64 conversations between Nixon and his aides from June 20, 1972 through June 4, 1973. Jaworski has been vainly seeking the tapes in private negotiations with the White House since Jan. 9. He contends that he needs them for the trial of seven Nixon men indict ed hi the Watergate coverup: H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, John Mitch ell, Charles Colson, Robert Mardian, Gordon Strachan and Kenneth Parkin son. Their trial has been set for Sept. 9, though they have until May 1 to file motions for separate trials, not expected to be granted by Sirica...
...Mitchell asked me, he said, 'John, you'd better call your friend Dick Kleindienst [the Attorney General] and tell him what's going on.' " Dean dutifully passed along the message to Kleindienst. What happened next remains unclear, but the grand jury went on to indict Mitchell and Stans...
Richard M. Nixon. The grand jury evidently had more than enough to indict him if he'd been a private citizen, and, if only because it just investigated Watergate, it barely scratched the surface. In fact, the most substantive issue the House Judiciary Committee was looking into, Nixon's illegal and secret bombing of Cambodia (secret in the United States--the Cambodians knew about it), seems to be vanishing from the public eye. Nevertheless, Nixon carried on and through native surrogates continues to carry on the undeclared and probably illegal war begun by his predecessors in the White House...