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November. the only serious investigation aside from the police arrest of the burglars was an effort by the house banking committee in congress to find out the source of the money for the burglars. and it was headed by wright patman, a very forceful congressman from texas. >> chairman patman was asking the committee to grant him subpoena powers to compel those involved in the watergate affair to appear before open hearings. >> mr. patman had had the staff start an investigation in mid-august. so, we put all that together and made an initial report to the members of the committee on september 12...

Congress to find out the source of the money for the burglars. and it was headed by wright patman, a very forceful congressman from texas. >> chairman patman was asking the committee to grant him subpoena powers to compel those involved in the watergate affair to appear before open hearings. >> mr. pat had the staff start an investigation in mid-august. so we put all that together and ran an initial report to the members of the committee on september 12th. on september 15th, the watergate burglars were officially indicted. so that included the five who were at the watergate and included e. how...

Haldeman and dane, and they discussed how to stop the haldeman investigation. >> we just don't want stans up there in front of the cameras with patman. >> richard nixon couldn't withstand an open investigation. >> the members of this committee would either vote to give the american people the facts, all the facts about this political espionage, or they would shut the door. >> the solution was let's just get rid of it. let's just use our republican power on the hill to block it. >> and they went to gerald ford, who was the republican leader in the house of representatives and asked ford to mars...

We were running out of time. they called the hearing for october 10th and asked for voluntary appearances. so even though we didn't have subpoena power, we thought we could get them. we called john mitchell, maurice stans and tom dean, and they of course did not show up. >> as a result, patman just had the cameras come in and take pictures of all the empty chairs with their name plates, and the cover-up went on.

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