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March 22. Ehrlichman had a conversation with Egil Krogh Jr., one of the White House plumbers, now imprisoned for his role in the burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Ehrlichman assured Krogh that Hunt would not reveal certain matters. (One matter presumably was the burglary of the psychiatrist's office. This statement in the indictment seems to signal that Krogh will be a witness against Ehrlichman...
Also last week, Egil Krogh Jr., the head of Nixon's White House plumbers unit who pleaded guilty in the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, appeared on CBS-TV'S 60 Minutes news program. He claimed that a conversation of his own with Dean on March 20, 1973, casts a shadow on Dean's public testimony. CBS's Mike Wallace interpreted this to mean that Dean had committed perjury, but Krogh would not agree to that term...
...doubts about Dean's credibility seem at least partially based on a misunderstanding of his Senate testimony Krogh, Scott and Anderson all implied that Dean had claimed that Nixon was fully aware of all aspects of the cover-up before March 21, 1973. On that date, both the President and Dean agree, Dean outlined the conspiracy in detail. By this reasoning, also advanced by the White House, if Nixon expressed great surprise about Dean's revelations on March 21, Dean must be in error about any previous knowledge by Nixon...
...Thus Krogh told Wallace that Dean had confided to him on March 20 that "the President is being badly served. He just doesn't know what's been going on." To Krogh, this was inconsistent with Dean's claim that Nixon had been aware of the cover-up as early as September. Actually, Dean had only contended that Nixon had known about specific parts of the cover-up earlier than March 21. This knowledge did not necessarily include the precise involvement of his various political and White House aides, nor the legal ramifications...
...Understood. Moreover, Krogh's description of Dean's comments to him on March 20 neatly coincides with a talk that Dean told the Senate committee he had held with another White House aide, Richard Moore, on that same day. Claimed Dean: "I told him that I really didn't think the President understood all the facts involved in the Watergate and particularly the implication of those facts...