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...Ehrlichman, curiously, argued that Nixon would have been within his legal rights in ordering such a burglary. Nixon said he "did not authorize and had no knowledge of any illegal means to be used" to assess Ellsberg's motives. He said he was informed by Attorney General Richard Kleindienst on April 25 that Hunt was involved in the burglary and promptly agreed that the Ellsberg trial judge, Matthew Byrne, must be informed. Yet a White House-supplied log of Nixon-Dean meetings indicates that Dean told Nixon about the burglary more than a month earlier, on March...
...chief of staff, on March 30, 1972. It turned up last week when the Ervin committee subpoenaed a secretary of Colson's and asked her to bring along her files. The purpose of the Colson memo was to urge the Administration to withdraw its nomination of Richard Kleindienst as Attorney General-a nomination that was subsequently approved by the Senate. Colson's point at the time was that the Senate investigation of Kleindienst might conceivably turn up copies of several memorandums that had been written by both Administration and ITT officials. These documents, said Colson, could implicate...
Mitchell was singed first by Democratic Senator Herman Talmadge on a subject on which Mitchell almost cockily considered himself totally prepared. The crusty Georgian mentioned a well-publicized incident from Richard Kleindienst's Senate confirmation hearings to succeed Mitchell as Attorney General in March 1972. On that occasion Mitchell had testified that he had no political duties while serving as Attorney General. This assertion seemed to be contradicted by the testimony of many witnesses, including Mitchell himself, before the Ervin committee...
Responding eagerly, Mitchell said, "I was hoping that would come up." Surprisingly, he read from an account of the hearings in the Washington Post-the newspaper so often assailed by the Administration as wrong about Watergate. The Post quotations from the Kleindienst hearings seemed to back Mitchell's contention that he was asked only about "party responsibilities" and thus, since his part-time duties were with the Nixon re-election committee, his denial of official Republican Party activity was accurate. "Let's read a little further, Mr. Mitchell," said Talmadge, producing an official hearing transcript. The next question...
...proof, he read a transcript of a March 28 telephone conversation between John Ehrlichman, Nixon's former aide (who taped it), and then Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst...