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After getting Mitchell's call, Dean said, he asked Casey: "Can you do something to get these [subpoenas] postponed?" The answer was no, but the witnesses took the Fifth, and, as it happened, nothing leaked about the Vesco contribution prior to the election...
...February 1972 and as head of President Nixon's re-election committee in July 1972. On March 20, 1973, said Dean, Mitchell phoned him to rail against the treatment that he had received at the hands of the New York federal grand jury poking into the circumstances of Vesco's campaign contributions. Declared Dean: "He said that he had had a hell of a grilling, and he said that 'those little bastards were all over me. They asked questions all over the lot and even asked questions about John Ehrlichman and about you.' Mr. Mitchell asked...
Referring to the same tape, Walter Bonner, the head of Stans' legal team, then got Dean to admit that he had told the President that no one in the White House had ever done anything to help Vesco. At the time, of course, Dean had tried-though unsuccessfully-to delay the Vesco subpoenas...
...Witness. On Feb. 28,1973, the day after the SEC made public Vesco's $200,000 contribution, Dean told the President, according to a tape, "We have a good strong case" that the money had been given legally. Indeed, the tapes show that Dean had joined with the President in paying a tribute to Stans that sounded like a parody of Gilbert and Sullivan...
When Dean stepped down, his place was taken by Brad Cook, a bald, serious-faced, ambitious man who looks older than his 36 years. As the general counsel of the SEC, Cook had been put in charge of the investigation of Vesco, a man he characterized in court as "somebody you wouldn't want to do business with." To Cook (Phillips/Exeter, Stanford, University of Nebraska Law School), Vesco was "a slimer...