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...Hugh W. Sloan Jr., 32, former treasurer of C.R.P., testified that he distributed campaign funds for secret purposes with some misgivings. Whenever he asked for an explanation, he was put off. He finally got his answer the day after Watergate. He bumped into Liddy, who exclaimed: "My boys got caught last night. I made a mistake. I used somebody from here which I told them I would never do. I'm afraid I'm going to lose my job." A few days later, Magruder asked Sloan if he would agree to say that he had paid Liddy less...
...testimony of Hugh Sloan, the treasurer of the Committee to Re-Elect the President, had both these elements. Sloan's efforts (taking the oath, below right) was rewarded when Nixon took another oath--the Presidential oath of office--on Inauguration Day last January (below left.) Sloan, like most of Nixon's aides, looked pensive (bottom right) throughout the hearings. He was probably wondering where he, and Nixon, went wrong...
...particular, they entertain hopes, however slim, that G. Gordon Liddy, one of the convicted Watergate conspirators who up to now has maintained stoic silence, may talk. Also scheduled to testify this week are former re-election committee officials Robert Reisner, Hugh Sloan Jr., Maurice Stans and Liddy's secretary, Sally Harmony...
...built-in rigidity that they fear could stifle creative thinking. But the most frequently heard criticism of the plan concerns the de-emphasis of basic research. "It's ridiculous to compare the conquest of cancer with putting a man on the moon,"* says Dr. Robert Good, director of Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York City. "At the time the Apollo project was initiated, we knew all the basic information we had to know in order to go to the moon. We simply do not have that information about cancer...
...weeks that followed, Sloan said, he was repeatedly pressured to commit perjury. Jeb Stuart Magruder, then deputy chief of the C.R.P., insisted that they agree on a low figure for the amount of money that had been given to Liddy. Sloan told Magruder: "I have no intention to perjure myself." Replied Magruder: "You may have to." Finally, Sloan went to Stans to offer his resignation, but Stans had beat him to it. "I have already talked to the FBI," said Stans, "and told them that you resigned...