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— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, July 25, 1973
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Sum him up in 2 1 /? words
By WESLEY G. PIPPERT
WASHINGTON (UPI) - John
D. Ehrlichman’s first day
before the Senate Watergate
Committee can be summed up
in 2 l /z words—when he called
the chief counsel “professor”
and when he slipped and
addressed Chairman Sam Ervin
as “Mr. Preside ...”
Ehrlichman, once one of
President Nixon’s top two
aides, nodded his head, arched
his eyebrows and flicked the
pages of his 30-page statement
with exaggerated motion Tues
day as he professed complete
innocence of wrongdoing in the
Watergate scandal.
Sometimes he slapped his
palms on the arms of his chair
to emphasize a point; some
times he held out his index
fingers as if he were measuring
a fish and tapped them on top
of the brown-felt witness table.
He ran into Dash’s toughest
questioning of the nine weeks of
Senate hearings, and by the
time Ervin’s questions tumbled
out in an afternoon torrent of
anger and frustration there
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were tiny beads of sweat on
Ehrlichman’sbroad forehead.
For all that, Ehrlichman
remained unmoved in his
testimony. He testified that he:
—Had relied on John W.
Dean 111 in the months
following the June 17, 1972,
break-in at Democratic offices
“on the assumption that he was
giving us complete and accu
rate information.” Dean was
fired as White House counsel by
Nixon on April 30, the same
day Ehrlichman resigned with
fulsome praise from the Presi
dent.
—Considered the attempt to
break into a psychiatrist’s
office in order to get informa
tion about Pentagon Papers
defendant Daniel Ellsberg “to
be well within the President’s
inherent constitutional powers.”
—Believed he was undertak
ing “a legitimate undertaking”
in asking Herbert W. Kalm
bach, Nixon’s former personal
lawyer, to raise funds on behalf
of the original Watergate
defendants.
Ehrlichman was to return
today for testimony that is
expected to last at least
through Thursday. Former
White House Chief of Staff H.R.
“Bob” Haldeman will follow
Ehrlichman to the stand.
The committee is expected to
continue its hearings into the
second week of August in an
effort to complete the Water
gate phase of its investigation
into 1972 presidential campaign
activities. A desire to press on
past the scheduled congression
al recess date of Aug. 3 was
expressed Tuesday by Sens.
Lowell P. Weicker Jr., R-Conn.,
and Herman E. Talmadge, D-
Ga., as well as Dash.
The deadline for a White
House answer to the commit
tee’s subpoena of presidential
tapes is Thursday at 10 a.m.
EDT in the hearing room in the
Russell Senate Office Building.
Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr., R-
Tenn., the vice chairman, told
reporters that if the White
House refuses, as is expected,
the committee probably will
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Sen. Sam Ervin, clashes with
former Presidential aide John
D. Ehrlichman during Ehrlich
man’s appearance before the
committee. Ervin doubted
whether President Nixon had
the right to suspend the Fourth
Amendment of the Constitution
in burglarizing the office of
Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist.
(UPI)
ask the full Senate for a vote of
support and then file suit in
court.
Ehrlichman seemed to arouse
the strongest feelings of those
sitting at the green-felt table
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37 embarrassed senators
hope to head off pay hike
By STEVE GERSTEL
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Em
barrassed senators, at least 37
of them, hope to head off any
attempt to give pay raises to
members of Congress.
They rallied today around an
amendment by Sen. James B.
opposite him of any of the
parade of witnesses so far.
An aide to Ervin said he had
never seen the 76-year-old
constitutional expert and for
mer North Carolina Supreme
Court justice so agitated. Dash
said he was more tempted to
characterize Ehrlichman’s tes
timony than that of any other
witness, but he smiled and
refused to do so.
During Dash’s questioning of
Ehrlichman about the establish
ment of the White House
special unit, know as the
“plumbers group,” in 1970 to
help control news leaks, this
exchange took place:
Dash—So there came a time
when you were administering
an investigative unit?
Ehrlichman — In a literal
sense, that’s true.
Dash—A literal sense?
Ehrlichman—Yes, sir.
Dash—But not an actual
sense?
Ehrlichman—Well, here am I
dueling with a professor.
Dash (who is on leave as
professor at Georgetown Uni
versity)—l’m not dueling with
you. I’m just trying to get a....
Ehrlichman — Professor, if
you say actual, it’s actual.
Later Dash asked Ehrlich
man if the knowledge that
former White House staffers
Allen, D-Ala., freezing the
salaries of senators and House
members at $42,500.
Sen. Warren G. Magnuson, D-
Wash., called proposals for a
pay increase “incredibly ill
timed” and added he could see
no justification “for an increase
that would amount to more
than the total annual salary of
most American breadwinners.”
Although recommendations of
a pay commission have not
been made public, Magnuson
indicated that the commission
recommended an increase of
$12,500 for members of Con
gress-raising pay to $55,000 a
year.
Allen planned to offer the
amendment when the Senate
opened consideration of a
comprehensive campaign re
form bill.
The reform measure sets
limits on contributions by
individuals of $15,000 to a
presidential candidate and
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working under his direction had
broken into a psychiatrist’s
office might have been more
embarrasing to the Nixon
campaign than Watergate.
“I would not think so, Mr.
Dash, for several reasons. No.
1, that episode was part of a
very intensive national security
investigation which had been
impressed with a very high
security classification. The
likelihood of that being dis
closed was very slight.
“No. 2, those people were
operating under ... a national
security situation, under a
situation of considerable mo
ment to the nation in the theft
of top secret documents, and
their apparent delivery to the
Soviet embassy ...”
During the afternoon, Ervin,
his words racing ahead of his
ability to get them out, taking
his glasses on and off, pointing
with a pencil, said:
“You said something about
the burglarizing of the office of
the psychiatrist of Ellsberg was
justified by the President’s
inherent power under the
Constitution, didn’t you?
Ehrlichman—Yes, sir.
Ervin—And you referred to
certain statutes.
Ehrlichman—l referred to a
statute in which Congress in
1968 made recognition of that
inherent power.
$5,000 to congressional candi
dates with an aggregate limit
of SIOO,OOO in donations during a
single year.
The bill also provides a
spending ceiling of 15 cents per
eligible voter in primaries and
20 cents in the general election.
In addition, the bill would
create a Federal Elections
Commission, with powers to
take court action, to oversee
the reforms.
Allen and the 36 co-sponsors
of the amendment are seeking
to undo what the Senate passed
July 9, by voice vote with only
a handful of senators on the
floor.
The Senate approved legisla
tion which would have permit
ted President Nixon to
recommend salary increases
for Congress, members of the
Cabinet and federal judges as
early as August They would go
into effect in October unless
either the Senate or House
voted to turn them down.
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Ehrlichman testified that President Nixon, preoccupied with other matters, ordered a
complete Watergate investigation and disclosure only to be betrayed by John Dean. (UPI)
Ervin—ls that section 18 U.S.
Code 2511?
Ehrlichman—Yes, sir.
Ervin -Will you please tell me
—now this statute has nothing
to do with burglary. It only has
to d 0...
Ehrlichman —It has to do
with the U.S. Constitution, Mr.
Preside... Mr. Chairman.
Ervin—No, sir. Not the
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