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...Stans at New York's Metropolitan Club on Nov. 15, 1972. Finally, he denied warning Dean, after testifying in March 1973 before a federal grand jury looking into the Vesco donation, that the panel was a "runaway grand jury." Dean testified that Mitchell asked him to telephone Richard Kleindienst, then Attorney General, and alert Kleindienst to the grand jury's zeal in pursuing Vesco's ties to Administration figures...
Scandalous Conduct. Nixon sustained another blow last week when it was revealed by the Washington Post that former Attorney General Richard Kleindienst was bargaining with the staff of Prosecutor Jaworski to avoid indictment on a felony charge of perjury. At his confirmation hearings in the spring of 1972, Kleindienst had testified that no one at the White House had brought pressure on him in any way to influence the Justice Department's settlement of its antitrust suit against ITT. He later revealed that Nixon himself had phoned him and asked him not to carry the case against...
...Kleindienst thus could become the second Attorney General-and third Cabinet member-in the Nixon Administration to face criminal charges. John Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans are already on trial in New York on one campaign funding case (see story following page). A guilty plea by Kleindienst would be another dismal record for an Administration that is breaking all precedents for scandalous official conduct...
...grilling, and he said that 'those little bastards were all over me. They asked questions all over the lot and even asked questions about John Ehrlichman and about you.' Mr. 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...
...attorney, produced a transcript of a taped conversation between Dean and Nixon on the day that Mitchell had called to complain about the grand jury. Although Dean told the President about Mitchell's anger, the tapes showed that he did not report he had been asked to call Kleindienst. This apparent lack of candor was pounced upon by Fleming, who got Dean to admit that the conversation had occurred at a time when, by his own claim, he was telling Nixon "all the truth"-an allusion to his revelations to the President about Watergate. Dean's acknowledgment...