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Show The Salt Lake B. Tribune, Saturday, June .10, 1973 Sought ?To Hide Nothing Bhnn Testimony Ends, Nixon Day Urged ii matter of the premature publication in the New York Herald of a portion of his' last annual message. From Fage One Cor-of II: e senators on the panel that Nixon must respond at some point with a cohesive defense C., the Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., committee chairman, and Sen. Baker, the ranking Republican, had suggested welpublicly Thursday that they would Nixon's testimony, come preferably under oath. But the White House had ruled it out through a presidential spokesman again Thursday, terming such an appearance constitutionally inappro- The committee chairman noted, with evident relish, that this is an item con- cerning the manner in which President Lincoln the first Republican chief ex"volunteered to appear and ecutive testify before the House committee. Baker immediately recalled another precedent, "Not nearly as old as vour precedent, from the 1919 dispute between President Wilson and Congress over the Treaty' of Versailles. Baker said that Wil-orather than appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had muted the committee to meet with him at the White House. Afterward Sen. Edward J. Gurney of Florida, demonstrated again his skeptical reaction to Deans testimony, how ever. three-hou- r whose Gurney, of the witness two days earlier was the most strenuous test of anv D-- priate." n. afternoon, after Dean had reasserted his faith that his account would ultimately be proved accurate. Enin pulled from his files a wrinkled photostat of a news article in the Feb 14, 1862 edition of the New York Tribune. Tracing the words with a gnarled finger Friday Enin read: President Lincoln today oluntanly appeared before the House Judiciary Committee and gave testimony in the n - WASHINGTON Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr.. ordered former White House aide Charles W. Colson out of his office Friday after Weicker accused Colson in an impassioned speech the day before of trying to pressure Weicker into halting his probe 01 the Watergate scandal. Weickers aides said Colson, a former special counsel to President Nixon, made an appointment to see the senator to discuss Weickers charges. Colson went to Weickers office Friday morning to tell him he had not attempted to "plant news stories that the senator failed to report certain campaign contributions during the 1970 campaign, the aides said. WASHINGTON (UPI) -P- chief adviser, H. R. Haldeman, acknowledged in January that he knew of meetings the year before in the office of Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell at which plans that led to the Watergate bugging were discussed, it was alleged Friday. Charles W. Colson, a former special counsel to Nixon, said in a sworn statement he was so shocked and startled to learn shortly after the first of the year that Mitchell and former White House counsel John W. Dean III had been at such meetings that he went to Haldeman to tell him. Mr. Haldeman said to me that he knew about Mr. Colson also denied that a memo introduced at the Wa- tergate hearings naming 20 political enemies of the White House came from his office. But aides said he admitted writing another memo suggesting that John W. Dean III inform the Internal Revenue Service of income tax discrepancies involving the re- - Deans attendance at those Colson said. . . . Mr. Haldeman said that Mr. Dean had already told him about it, that he was aware of it. meetings Colson's statement tained in a sworn pretrial con- dep- osition in a Watergate-relatecontrasted sharply civil suit with a similar deposition d given by Haldeman ago. a month Scandal Figure Cover-u- p - NEW YORK (UPI) Former White House aide John D. Ehrlichman said in a televised interview Friday that he to know about the cover-uof the Watergate scandal around the end of last March. began p cover-urealThe ly did not become evident to me until 1 got into this tiling full steam the end of March of this year. he said. Challenging Deans testimony that he disclosed the details in a March 13 meeting, special White House counsel .Fred Buzhardt told the Senate Watergate committee by phone that at the March 21 meeting Dean pushed the idea of paying off the Watergate defendants, but Nixon said it was blackmail and was wTong. Dean, however, stuck to his testimony, saying the White House was confusing events at meetings on March 13 and March 21. Reads Memo Committee Democratic counsel Sam Dash read portions of a memo written by Republican counsel Fred Thompson, relating a conversation with Buzhardt. Dash said Buzhardt and White House counsel Leonard Garment had read the memo and said it was an He was interviewed on the CBS show 60 Minutes." which in was taped Washington Thursday night. mm con- versation. Mr. Dean The memo said' stated that Hunt was trying to blackmail Ehrlichman about Hunt's prior plumber activities unless he would pay what Moss Sponsors Bill To Aid Consumer Tribune Washington Bureau A bill for WASHINGTON the benefit of the consumer has been introduced by Sen. Frank E. Moss, Sen. Moss says the bill will put an end to these package pictures that lead people to believe that a package of powder contains all kinds of things that have to be purchased sep- - ! 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The President stated that it was blackmail, that it was wrong, that it would not work, that the truth would come out ANCHOR FLYING CARPETS WITH cm? cim r?i 68 Among the negative telegrams were demands that Weicker resign, a charge that he was defending that slippery eel John Dean and one that said: With friends like you and John Dean, Mr. Nixon does not need an enemies list. gredients and nutritional tent on packaged food labels. 890 ri3 Z con- if" St. rgs THOUSANDS OF ITEMS TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION. ALL MUST BE SOLD spokesman for the senator said 1,125 of the messages saluted Weickers speech, and 18 opposed him. The laudatory messages included thanks "for making me proud to be a Republican, praise for what one Oregon woman called a tall, tall man and one anonymous telegram from one Republican and one Democrat, saying. more than anything you represent what America is all about. ultimately amounted to t j.t i IS - i ? first served. Bring your trucks and Hurry, stocks are limited. 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"Gibbons, you should know, is an the enemy, White House memo said, and described him as "a p of Associated And I thank the committee for the many courtesies it has provided me in assisting me to get to get to and from the hearing room and providing me available space during the breaks and the recesses and the thoughtfulness of the' staff in turns A accurate account V Jio White House Challenges Dean WASHINGTON (UPI) -The White House said Friday that John W. Dean III did not relate the details of the Watergate coverup to President Nixon until March 21, the date the President later said he learned of major new developments in the case. And I earnestly pray that this committee reaches the truth in this entire matter and reaches it as quickly as possible because I think there is a temole cloud over this government that must be removed so that we can have effective government. I have sought to provide this committee with all the facts and information that I know regarding this matter, to answer all of the questions that have been asked of me and to hide nothing of my own involvement in this matter and provide the truth as I know it. n more." In it. Haldeman said he had no recollection" of getting such a report from Dean, though he was perhaps willing to accept that as a possibility. Dales V n (Copyright) up initially from working within the White House and when that didn't work I took it upon myself to work from without. FolWASHINGTON (AP) of statement the is closing lowing John W. Dean III to the Senate Watergate committee Friday as he concluded five days of testimony: anti-Nixo- Deposition Reveals Bugging Sessions resident Nixons i But Gurney produced records from the Mayflower and the nearby Staller-HiltoHotel to show that Kalmbach had been a guest that night in the Statler-lliltoand not, as Dean remembered, in the Mayflower. "I am never sure which is the Mayflower and which is the Statler-Hilton- ! Dean explained, adding under stern but smiling quizzing by Gurney that1 he had lived in the capital for 10 years but that I continually get them confused, I must confess. McGo-vernit- Disavows Memo - Dean had testified a number of times this week that he met with Herbert W. Kalmbach. Nixon's personal attorney, on June 29. 1972. at the Mayflower Hotel a few blocks fiom the White House. Colson Makes Appointment, But Weicker Not in Mood By Michael Putzel Associated Press Writer Dean Ends Testimony With Hope for Truth Watergate witness yet. sought Friday to question Dean's credibility by shaking his recollection of with some success to one ago exactly meeting year arrange for payoffs of "silence money" to Watergate defendants. RD. 299-727- 1 - 6 262-465- 2 PECK & SHAW |