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when jeff mcgruder -- jeb mcgruder went to run the reelection committee, he has no general counsel. one of the things i felt we were responsible for was that nixon got filed properly everywhere in every state and jurisdiction. my office gathered all the state election laws so we knew what they were because no one was covering this. if anyone was going to make a mistake, it was going to be our office. at one point, in his management style, haldeman would constantly send out memos as to what we are working on. i kept saying how much time we were spending on the legal work of the reelection committee. when mcgruder -- he was intimidated by john mitchell. he knew i was close to mitchell, not on a friendship basis but on a working relationship. i can pick up a phone and talk to him anytime i needed to. it was comfortable dealing with him. jeb, this was early when this question of campaign intelligence all came up. for reasons unbeknownst to me, when jeb is going over, he said i think you should come over and hear what gordon liddy in sending over about the reelection committee. what had
when jeff mcgruder -- jeb mcgruder went to run the reelection committee, he has no general counsel. one of the things i felt we were responsible for was that nixon got filed properly everywhere in every state and jurisdiction. my office gathered all the state election laws so we knew what they were because no one was covering this. if anyone was going to make a mistake, it was going to be our office. at one point, in his management style, haldeman would constantly send out memos as to what we...
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Mar 29, 2015
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just as would justify -- mcgruder would testify. moderator: you are trying to make sense of it. what are you supposed to be doing? john: i learn quickly about the plumber operation. what they have done. i realize this could cost the president the election, and we have white house aides who i don't know. i know yelling, ehrlichman, the way the white house operates halderman. if of the president. i don't know who is involved. no one is sharing it with me. they bring me in slowly. it is sort of the -- halderman and ehrlichman take charge immediately. colby attorney general -- the colby attorney general -- the attorney general, i am invited to the meeting. i'm in the second part of the meeting. nobody is really sharing anything. my former boss from the justice department asked me to come back to the justice department with him and talk to him because liddy has gone out over the weekend, when he is playing golf at burning tree, and told him, and just blurted the whole thing out. these are my men. they were arrested in watergate. we've got serious problems. so he has told the chief la
just as would justify -- mcgruder would testify. moderator: you are trying to make sense of it. what are you supposed to be doing? john: i learn quickly about the plumber operation. what they have done. i realize this could cost the president the election, and we have white house aides who i don't know. i know yelling, ehrlichman, the way the white house operates halderman. if of the president. i don't know who is involved. no one is sharing it with me. they bring me in slowly. it is sort of...
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Mar 1, 2015
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as mcgruder put it to his aide when colson says that, sometimes he is telling the truth. it really is from nixon. they carried it out. i think it was from nixon, in fact. these were orders to assault me at least if not to kill me on the steps of the capital on may 3, 1972. they did not do it for reasons we could go into. they thought there were getting set up to be caught. instead, they blew the attempt. they did not assault me. they got into the crowd and were led away by police giving them an excuse for not attacking. they spent that night, several of them, reconnoitering their next objective which was the watergate. they went into the watergate three weeks later. on a second attempt, for reasons we still don't know -- anyone who feels confident that they know exactly what the raid into the watergate offices were or the second raid was for, does not have an adequate basis as far as i know. as far as any documents we know, that remains something of a mystery with various hypotheses. how much nixon knew and so forth remains unclear. how much people knew of the physical at
as mcgruder put it to his aide when colson says that, sometimes he is telling the truth. it really is from nixon. they carried it out. i think it was from nixon, in fact. these were orders to assault me at least if not to kill me on the steps of the capital on may 3, 1972. they did not do it for reasons we could go into. they thought there were getting set up to be caught. instead, they blew the attempt. they did not assault me. they got into the crowd and were led away by police giving them an...
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Mar 22, 2015
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that neither mitchell nor mcgruder, who are up to this eyeballs in this thing -- the cover story the money being , giving to liddy was to protect surrogates and do intelligence gathering of a general nature has held. liddy and his men aren't talking. what's interesting is some of the cases. some of the burglars had their cases reversed. by the court of appeals and the district of columbia. they had legitimate right to rely on hunt representations. that they were doing this for the president, which makes you have presidential authority to undertake this burglary. i never understood those holdings. they have helped to this day. moderator: i ask about when you met him because it is on august 29, the president and a public statement which surprised you mention something called the dean investigation. john: he was asked by the traveling press corps why he was not appointing a special prosecutor to look into this because of the conflicts of interest. there was no need for that. the fbi is investigating it. the congress has a number of committees investigating it. the general accounting off
that neither mitchell nor mcgruder, who are up to this eyeballs in this thing -- the cover story the money being , giving to liddy was to protect surrogates and do intelligence gathering of a general nature has held. liddy and his men aren't talking. what's interesting is some of the cases. some of the burglars had their cases reversed. by the court of appeals and the district of columbia. they had legitimate right to rely on hunt representations. that they were doing this for the president,...
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moderator: when you discussed with mcgruder, before his grand jury testimony you talked to him, somepeople use the word coached him, did he know what had happened? john: oh, absolutely. i did not have to coach him. what he wanted to do with me which they at one point said was my supporting his perjury. which it wasn't. i said the only thing i will do, jeb, is tell you things that will be asked by the prosecutors. i do not even care by your answers, i do not want to hear your answers, but that is what i did with him. i gave him sort of a drilling as to the sort of things he could anticipate he would be asked. moderator: and he told you that mitchell had ordered it. john: he told me that within several days after the break-in. moderator: and he did not say that haldeman had ordered it? john: no. he thought that strachan might be aware, but he did not know that haldeman had ordered it. moderator: and he did not know that strachan had ordered it? john: no. but he knew generally. moderator: mitchell ultimately owned up to it. john: late in the game, when i went to the meeting with prosecu
moderator: when you discussed with mcgruder, before his grand jury testimony you talked to him, somepeople use the word coached him, did he know what had happened? john: oh, absolutely. i did not have to coach him. what he wanted to do with me which they at one point said was my supporting his perjury. which it wasn't. i said the only thing i will do, jeb, is tell you things that will be asked by the prosecutors. i do not even care by your answers, i do not want to hear your answers, but that...