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could be easily raised; (3) the President was informed the blackmail
demand was coming principally from Mr. Hunt; (4) the President referred
to the "fact that Hunt had been promised clemency;" (5) "the President
said he had discussed the matter of clemency with John Ehrlichman
who had foolishly raised it with Charles Colson; (6) the President was
told payoffs had been made. This is what Mr. Dean testified to - -
about that conversation on March 13.
From the recording, however, not a single one of these assertions
is corroborated. Not an ounce of solid proof exists from these three
discussions, that the President was involved in or aware of a criminal
cover-up of the Watergate affair.
Almost without exception, the words, phrases and revelations
that Mr. Dean claims to have made to the President on September 15,
February 28 and March 13 were actually made on the 21st day of March,
1973, just as the President indicated on the 17th of April in his public
statement:
"On March 21, as a result of serious charges which came
to my attention, some of which were publicly reported, I
began intensive new inquiries into this whole matter. 11
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