Dean implicates Nixon in Watergate cover-up during Senate hearing
John W. Dean III testified before the Senate Watergate committee detailing a White House led cover-up from the 1972 break-in. He implicated President Nixon and aides Haldeman Ehrlichman Mitchell Colson Gray in plans to obstruct justice. Dean described meetings and pressure to keep the affair quiet and discussed hush money and executive clemency as investigations intensified.
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Nixon Keeping Kar To Hearings
President Nixon maintains a businesslike stance while closely monitoring the Senate Watergate hearings. Aides supply periodic oral and written updates on testimony from former counsel John W. Dean III. Press Secretary Ziegler says Nixon is aware of the events but has not watched the televised hearings since they began.
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