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After convicted Wiretapper James McCord wrote a letter to Federal Judge John Sirica claiming that higher officials were involved, the cover-up began to come apart, and Nixon, according to Dean, was troubled. It did not help when Dean told the President last spring that Haldeman and Ehrlichman, as well as Dean himself, might be indicted. The President then discussed with Dean the possibility of his own impeachment-a damaging indication of how seriously Nixon took his own involvement...
Although Cox reluctantly accepted the Ervin committee's decision, he was still trying at week's end to persuade Federal Judge John Sirica to ban the public from the hearings, or at least to ban TV and radio coverage of potential defendants like former White House Counsel John Dean. Since reporters would presumably still be admitted, the absence of TV cameras or radio microphones would hardly insulate the public from the proceedings...
This week Federal Judge John J. Sirica will hold hearings and issue a ruling on one of the most important tactical questions of the entire Watergate investigation: Should former White House Counsel John W. Dean III be granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for his uninhibited testimony about who organized the affair and who tried to cover...
Under the new law the Ervin committee is able to offer only use immunity, which, once approved by Judge Sirica, can be imposed on Dean whenever the committee chooses. But to testify with such limited protection, says a Dean friend, would be like going before the committee "with his fanny showing." Actually, full immunity is available under old laws until they expire in 1974, and the Attorney General could authorize it if he wished. But so far, the prosecutors have offered only to let Dean plead guilty to one count of obstruction of justice, with the likelihood of a suspended...
...based upon?assessments of certain foreign intelligence capabilities and procedures, which of course must remain secret. It was this unused plan and related documents that John Dean removed from the White House and placed in a safe deposit box, giving the keys to Federal Judge John J. Sirica. The same plan, still unused, is being headlined today...