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...impact on the Judiciary Committee proceedings- was hardly limited to anonymous threats. Four cameras and a panoply of klieg lights transformed the committee room into a blazing national platform. Yet the big eye's presence did not cause any histrionics. The contrast with last summer's Ervin-committee hearings was sharp. Speeches and statements were shorter; committee members are used to competing for time on the House floor with 434 colleagues, while Senators can afford a more leisurely pace. The TV cameras often appeared to be the raison d'etre of the Senate Watergate grillings...
...secretary's wife had been seized while driving home from a dining and shopping excursion in Peking. They were, according to Moscow, pulled from their car by Chinese Public Security officials, bound, and taken to a street where "a big crowd had assembled and where movie cameras and klieg lights were ready." Then they were dragged out of the cars amid the jeers and hoots of the crowd, and the entire episode was filmed. The other Russians - Third Secretary U.A. Semyonov and his interpreter, A. A. Kolosov - were picked up else where in Peking by police, handcuffed and taken...
...three of those key figures are expected to follow Dean into the klieg-lighted Senate Caucus Room. So too will such also potentially damaging witnesses as the mysterious Kalmbach, who handled so much payoff money, Gordon Strachan, who can discredit Haldeman, and David Young, a member of the White House plumbers staff, who could undermine Ehrlichman. If Ehrlichman and Haldeman are discredited in testimony, Nixon might have to argue that even these most trusted aides deceived him. On the other hand, that future lineup of witnesses could reinforce Nixon's claims of noninvolvement, and he could emerge relatively clean...
...Klieg lights often throw more heat than illumination. Hearsay evidence can be spoken out of context. Mistakes cannot be edited on live TV. Even the most innocent cameraman can, at a tense moment, transform the zoom lens into a character assassin...
...Watergate story was now being dramatized under the klieg lights of the crowded Senate Caucus Room and thrust into the living rooms of America. Figuratively, the testimony represented at least half a dozen sticks of dynamite that could blow the scandal skyhigh. The fuses were lit, and the first reached flash point as Convicted Wiretapper James W. McCord Jr. directly accused Richard Nixon of participating in attempts to conceal the involvement of his closest political associates in the sordid and still-spreading affair...