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The tape starts rolling. he testified that the tape picks up all conversation, illinois, even whispers. mr. butterfield also said that the cabinet room has a listening device installed. he says that this means that the president can turn this on and off if he wants to, and he went on and said that the president's business we in the oval office, in the executive office building, in his residence, in his cabinet cat and david are all bugs. with -- any warning signals were given to anyone, private citizens, senators, congressman, mr. butterfield said no. and down in front of the senate caucus roo...
77-0. >> now the country could not vote 77-0 to keep the american flag. there would be some opposition. >> one of the purposes of the committee is to convince the american people that our system will work. when one system is alleged to break down, another part can move in and see that government functions properly. >> the committee was run by sam ervin, a great constitutional scholar. howard baker was his vice chair. a senator from tennessee, conservative republican. >> and the chief counsel of the committee was a fellow named sam dash. he was looking for three people to run the investigations...
John dean testified. was the president telling the truth? >> i had no prior knowledge of the watergate break-in. >> or was john dean telling the truth? >> i happen to believe that he did have knowledge. >> so i talked to mark felt, deep thrown unknown for 33 years. he's got to talk to alexander butterfield. he had this key role in the haldeman-nixon circle. and he was in charge of what is called internal security, which means wiretapping. >> i was the deputy white house chief of staff, chief administrative officer, and director of internal security. >> i then said to sam dash, you've got to in...
But the public was able to increase the pressure on the white house. and so the president waived executive privilege for his lieutenants. >> the president also said that white house officials will testify before a special senate committee investigating the break-in and the bugging of democratic headquarters in washington last june. what he said there was a democratic change from his previous silence in the watergate case and his refusal to let white house aides 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...