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Some self-serving, improper and march 14 of this year, is that correct? that s correct. mr. butterfield, are you possibly illegal purpose by the aware of the installation of any president and people who he listening devices in the oval office of the president? directed to act on his behalf. so they get not only what went wrong but what the stakes were of it. i was aware of listening these are two officials we re going to hear from tomorrow who devices, yes, sir. understood how things were nixon aide alexander supposed to be and who were butterfield s shocking admission almost uniquely qualified to july 1973 that there were recognize what was going wrong and what the cost of that would be, how much this scheme that listening devices inside the the president was carrying out oval office. was going to screw up something that came a full two months into that s actually very important for our country. the senate watergate hearings. they started in may. and we know they re able to th ....
that s correct. are you aware of the intlgz of any listening devices in the oval office of the president? i was aware of listening devices, yes, sir. nixon aide alexander butterfield s shocking admission july 1973 that there were listening devices inside the oval office. that came a full two months into the senate watergate hearings. they started in may. that didn t happy until july. that, of course, is the development that would ultimately lead to president richard nixon s resignation the following year. it was two months in. the watergate hearings didn t start off with that kind of f r fireworks. the washington post reported, quote, if you like to watch grass grow you would have loved the opening yesterday of the senate collect committee s hearings on watergate. tomorrow the house intelligence committee will kick off its first day of public impeach hearings with testimony from the ....
Documents. this is an example of that file a memo drafted for haldman and ehrlichman by dean himself. it describes a plan in dean s own pungent along the use the availability federal machinery to screw our political enemies. use the available federal machinery to screw our public enemies. don t just list them, but use the available federal machinery to hurt them. john dean admitted to it in june 1973. july 1973, the white house admitted there was a taping system in the white house. the supreme court forced the tapes to be released, and then all this enemies list stuff, all of this stuff that we had described to us about them using the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies, it wasn t just an allegation anymore. once the tapes were released, we got to hear it on tape, curses ....
A memo drafted for haldeman and ehrlichman by dean himself. it describes a plan in dean s own pungent language to use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies. use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies. don t just list our political enemies. but use the available federal machinery to hurt them. john dean admitted to it in june 1973. july 1973 the nixon white house admitted there was a taping system in the white house. july 30th the supreme court forced the tapes to be released. and then all this enemies list stuff. all of this stuff that we d had described to us about them using the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies, it wasn t just an allegation anymore. once the tapes were released we all got to hear it play out on tape. you know, curses and all. one example, nixon particularly ....