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For his lieutenants. >> the president also said white house officials will testify before a special senate committee investigating the break-in and bugging of democratic headquarters in washington last june. what he said there was a dramatic change from the previous silence in the watergate case and the refusal to let them testify before the senate. >> my lawyer made a decision very early that he thought i was a witness and not a defendant in any criminal proceeding. he said i think you should have immunity and i want to go to the senate and get it. >> charlie shaver, his lawyer approached sam...

>> seven men went on trial today in a washington federal court charged with a break in and burglary of democratic national headquarters in the watergate building last june. >> the white house managed to contain the breaking of the watergate to only seven people. but, john new that people had lied and it passed him off. so, what he wanted to do was to find out if there was anybody above those seven who should be going to jail. he thought the only way for that to happen would be to give them tough sentences. >> as white house counsel i was the desk officer of the cover-up . i get the information...

From my experience, learned, in the long run, they don't work. the truth has its own way of coming out and will come out. the weekend of april 14 1973 is when the watergate government cover-up imploded. i had talked to them that the fact i thought we were breaking the law and i showed particularly ehrlichman, being a lawyer, the statute that was involved and why i thought we were violating it. he said i disagree. john, he said, i have no criminal intent and so i didn't violate the statute's. i can't believe that a man who went to law school had to miss school the day they talked about criminal...

On one hand he owed his loyalty the president but he also had an ethics conflict in his own mind about nixon not doing the right thing. and he called me on the phone and he said i would like to talk to your dad. could you arrange that? so, i got john dean and my father together at my house and john asked my father what he should do and my father said, john, you've got to tell the truth and nail him. >> everybody was watching. everybody was talking about it and john dean is the one that turned the dial. >> the council will call the first witness. >> i'm sure he made everybody in the country thi...

From the southern district of new york who was now primarily a defense attorney. i had asked him to come into my office and let's figure out who has done what and who has what exposure and it was mcgruder, mitchell, colman, ehrlichman and yours truly. i took that list to halderman trying to convince him one last time that indeed we were all in trouble. he cautioned me and said, john, be very careful once the toothpaste is out of the tube it is very hard to get back in. on april 15th, i meet with the president at 9:00 p.m. that night. he is in his easy chair and his executive office building of...