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...Dean testified, he made eight to twelve phone calls at Mitchell's behest to William J. Casey, then the chairman of the SEC. Dean said that he passed along his mentor's complaints that the SEC was using unfair and harassing tactics against Financier Robert Vesco. The Government has charged that on April 10, 1972, Vesco made a secret contribution of $200,000 to Nixon's 1972 campaign, and that in return Mitchell and Stans tried to hinder an SEC investigation into Vesco's alleged massive looting of Investors Overseas Services, a mutual fund empire that...
Late in October 1972, testified Dean, Mitchell phoned with a request: he wanted him to get Casey to postpone until after Election Day the appearance before the SEC of several of Vesco's subpoenaed staffers. According to Dean, Mitchell claimed that the sessions, scheduled for Nov. 2, 1972, were "just a further example of harassment. It will be very embarrassing for these secretaries [of Vesco's] to take the Fifth Amendment, and the whole thing is just something we don't need before the election...
...Little Bastards." Dean said that Mitchell seemed to be particularly worried that word would get out about Vesco's close involvement with two of the President's relatives-Donald A. Nixon, 27, the President's nephew and a Vesco aide; and Edward Nixon, 43, the President's brother, who had played a minor role in arranging Vesco's contribution...
Campaign Smear. The Government has charged that Mitchell induced John Dean, then President Nixon's counsel, to contact Casey before the 1972 election and ask him to postpone some SEC subpoenas served on some of Vesco's employees. Casey acknowledged that he got a request from Dean on Nov. 2, 1972 -five days before the election. Dean, he said, wanted the testimony of the employees to be delayed until after the election, lest their appearances before a grand jury somehow be used as a "last-minute campaign smear." But, Casey added, Dean did not say that Mitchell...
...witness who caused the biggest stir among spectators last week was Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's personal secretary. She testified that Stans left Vesco's name off one list of campaign contributors-thus raising the possibility that he might have been trying to conceal the gift. But she noted that the financier's name appeared on a second list in the impeccable company of the four Rockefeller brothers...