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Besieged by newsmen to explain the President's statement, White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said that March 21 was about the time that convicted Wiretapper James McCord wrote a celebrated letter to Judge Sirica. In it, McCord charged that unnamed officials had brought pressure on the arrested burglars to plead guilty, and that persons not yet indicted had been involved in the conspiracy. But Ziegler could not detail what kind of new investigation Nixon had made on his own. Justice Department sources also said that they were unaware of any new presidential inquiry. As late as March...
That reputation for fairness was tarnished two weeks ago, when Ervin was called away to attend the funeral of his youngest brother. In his absence, the investigation almost got out of hand. One of the convicted Watergate wiretappers, James W. McCord Jr., began making sensational allegations of White House involvement. He talked to the committee's staff investigator, Samuel Dash, 48, and to the committee itself. Dash, trying to apply pressure on the six other convicted conspirators to also talk, unwisely called a press conference to reveal that McCord had "promised to tell everything he knows...
Leaks. There were widespread leaks to newsmen about McCord's charges-all of which seemed to be based on hearsay and were so far unsubstantiated. One committee member, Connecticut Republican Lowell P. Weicker Jr., publicly demanded the resignation of Haldeman, the President's chief of staff. Weicker claimed that Haldeman "probably" knew about an operation of political sabotage against the Democrats that was far broader than the Watergate eavesdropping...
What went on inside Watergate between Mssrs. Liddy, Hung, Dean, Gray, Stans, Chapin, Colson, McCord, Segretti, Magruder, Haldeman and Mitchell, and doubtless others, will take a legal expert to unravel. What stares us in the face, yet remains unsaid (either from motives of delicacy or hesitancy to deface Uncle Sam, or else perhaps from fear of reprisal) is that in so large an operation, the boss himself must have been informed, or if not, his ignorance is no less culpable...
...Gerald Ford, Republican House leader, declared: "If Dean is clean, I see no reason why he shouldn't testify.") John Mitchell* said that "I deeply resent the slanderous and false statements about me," and reaffirmed earlier denials of any advance knowledge of the Watergate affair. Colson termed McCord's mention of him "a goddamned lie." Magruder stood by his earlier denials, and Haldeman was covered by the Nixon announcement last August that "no one presently employed by the White House" was involved...