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Impeachment Hearings: House Judiciary Committee, July 26, 1974 (1/2)
[00.39.32] Mr. MANN. But, what bothers me most of all are the loose statements, some Which we have Just now heard, that the, President is going to go to on trial, Without knowing what the charge is. The President if he goes to trial, is going to trial not only knowing what the charge is. but knowing, what every word, every i and every t, every bit of evidence that has been made available to this committee, which has been presented here in the presence of the President's counsel. If we get further evidence, I can assure you will have my support to see that the President's counsel is present when it is presented to this committee and that, he is present when it is presented to the House of Representatives, if -new evidence is presented at any time. So, what are we talking about sneaking tip on someone? The evidence all of it, will be available to the President tomorrow or the next day. He has gotten it up until now. He has some, of course that we would like to have. Now, I do not find that this proceeding, which admittedly has sparse precedent, is in violating the constitutional rights of anyone who stands before the bar of justice possessed of every fact known to the prosecution and possessed of the description of the charge against him. What surprise--what surprise can I conclude other than this is not a substantive objection; it is a procedural matter. It is a matter that I must suggest that I somewhat predicted as I realized that the arguments made here in front of these cameras would not be made for the benefit of me as a member of this committee. I do not think Mr. Sandman would be so strident or even so partisan if these proceedings were not being conducted to influence the opinions of the American People. But, I am here to study the law and the evidence, and to see that Richard Nixon gets a fair trial, that he is advised of all the evidence against him, and in my judgment , the charges that are included in article I notify him of what he is charged with. And they set out something extra , the means by which he is alleged to have committed that offense of obstruction of justice. Let us be reasonable. Mr. WIGGINS. Would the gentleman yield'? Mr. MANN. We have had the advice of Mr. Jenner who because of his objectivity stands stripped of his title as minority counsel, a man who was chairman of that body of the American Bar Association, the Advisory Committee to advise the Supreme Court on Rules of Evidence and Criminal Procedure, and the foremost expert in the United States, I submit on this subject. And he tells us that in his judgment this article is adequate to advise the respondent of the charges against him. Mr. WIGGINS. the gentleman yield? Mr. MANN. Fairness is what is required. I would settle for nothing less. And I submit that this article grants fairness in the highest tradition of American jurisprudence, and of the power of this body to exercise its serious power of preserving our Government through the power of impeachment. I yield back the balance of my time. Mr. WIGGINS. Would you yield for a second, please? The CHAIRMAN. I recognize the gentleman from Iowa, Mr. Mayne, for 5 minutes. Mr. MAYNE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey, Mr. Sandman, and reserve my remaining 2 minutes. The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman is recognized for 3 minutes. Mr. SANDMAN. I am amazed that I have heard some of the arguments I have heard here today. I cannot believe this is the same group that made all of those speeches yesterday and the night before, everyone of them making that Constitution, the Constitution the most valuable thing that was ever made, and it is, and yet, so willing to cast aside the most important provision therein, the one known as due Process, that one now for their own convenience they will throw under the rug. Isn't it amazing that they are willing to do anything such as resistance to making the thing specific? Isn't it amazing they have so much, but they are willing to say so little? Isn't it amazing? They are willing to do anything except make these articles specific. It is the same old story, you know, when you don't have the law on your side, YOU talk about facts. If you don't have the facts on your side, you just talk, and that is what a lot of people have been doing today. Now, we talk about this going to the Senate. What about the House of Representatives? Are you going to get down there and say fellows, we have got so many stories to tell, here is 40 books that have been put together by Doar and Jenner, you just rehash those, you don't need anything else. Don't pay any attention to the constitutional law or else, just look over these things, and maybe this is the reason why they didn't want any witnesses. Never wanted a witness. [00.45.42]
Impeachment Hearings: House Judiciary Committee, July 26, 1974 (1/2)
[00.51.27] The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from California, Mr. Waldie Mr. WALDIE. I thank the gentleman, but a 5 minute segment of the Watergate saga is a pretty hard one. But, we left the principals after the President and Mr. Colson on Sunday, following the burglary, 'were. having an hour's chat, in which they discussed the Watergate, hilt Only in general terms and never discussed any particulars at all, according to Mr. Colson. And we don't know, according to the President. But, we do know something that happened on June 20. All the President's men gathered from all over this country back into Washington They came from California, they came in from Florida. and they came to Washington where they could meet and confer and de- what to do about this threatening calamity, the threatening calamity of the re-election of the President, the most important thing all of them had facing their entire lives. the re-election of this President, and their blind-dedication to that 'objective is just not even arguable. And after they met and discussed their policy, the President met with Haldeman, his closest adviser, and they discussed the Watergate. That is in Haldeman's notes. Everybody agrees there was a, discussion of Watergate on that tape, That 18 1/2 minutes is all that is missing. There is nothing else missing on that tape except the discussion Of Watergate, right after that big strategy session. Now, it is now determined that human hands erased that 181/2 minutes while it was in the exclusive and sole possession of the President. And it is attributable to sinister forces. My own inclination is to believe that it is ,in inescapable inference that the President had that 18 1/2 minutes erased because. it would have been so devastating in its incrimination of the President immediately in the coverup plan. But, there is something that was not erased. There was a dictabelt of a phone conversation or the recollection that the President had of the events that day. The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman has expired. Is the gentleman from Ohio seeking recognition? Mr. LATTA. Yes, Mr. Chairman. I thought maybe they would never get down this far. The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes. Mr. LATTA. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is interesting to sit this far away from the center of power. You get all of these statements before you get an opportunity to speak. And let me just say, Mr. Chairman, that I was surprised as a member of the Rules Committee to hear that you propose sending these articles of impeachment in a general form. and attached thereto as a supplement I might say, in the report to the Rules Committee for consideration. Well, now Mr, Chairman, Members of the Rules Committee are, supposed to read those reports before. we make a finding and report a rule to the House of Representatives. And certainly you would not want us to void our own rules. I think that we ought to ponder about that, the same way that Members of the House of Representatives ought to ponder about what you are proposing. You are saying that we are going to send these general articles of Impeachment to the floor of the House, without being specific, without, saying the time, the place, and say to the Members of the House of Representatives who are not on this committee, go through those 38 or 40 volumes, try to sort out what we think as members of this committee are impeachable offenses, and make a judgment thereon. Is that what we are saying? If you are, other Members of the House, good luck. Well, Mr. Chairman, I think we ought to rethink what we are pro posing. A common Jaywalker charged: with jaywalking any place in the United States is entitled to know when an where the alleged offense is supposed to have occurred. Is the President of the United States entitled to less? Yes, he is entitled to know, even though the Constitution from which impeachment proceedings comes does not specifically spell out, but you have to do so. The sixth amendment is still in the Constitution, and are we going to waive it in this case? They did not waive it in. any other impeachment case. Are we going to set a new precedent here and waive that? Where are these civil libertarians? I think it is high time that we stopped to rethink what we are doing. Nobody is trying to delay the action here, because I well know that anytime that the chairman puts down that gavel and says call the roll, the votes are here to do exactly as you like. Whether or not Mr. Jenner Mr. Doar prepared these articles, which they probably did, they certainly ought, to agree with what they prepared, and I thought that was a question that really did not have to be asked by the Chair as to whether or not these gentlemen agreed with what they had prepared. I think that was useless. But, I think that it is important that we do something fair for the Other Members Of the House. Let us forget about the President of the United States. We are not the only Members of the House of Representatives who are going to be called upon to make a judgement And to throw 38 or 39 books at them and say here, here's what we meant, let Us just take a look at them. On the first page at the bottom, No. 1, he is charged with making false or misleading statements to lawfully authorized investigating 'officers. [00.58.27]
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Florence - Palazzo Vecchio, Ponte Vecchio, pan of city
Florence - Palazzo Vecchio, Ponte Vecchio, pan of city
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1950s - Italy - Hats and Necklaces in a Rowboat
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1950s - Italy - Pompeii Ruins
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1950s - Milan Cathedral - Piazza del Duomo
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Great White Egret
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New President In Caracas Venezuela
In Caracas, retiring Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt turns the reins of office over to Raul Leone. This is the first time in 150 years that an elected President has been able to succeed an incumbent in the country.... Caracas , Venezuela. This is truly an historic day in Caracas Caracas, Venezuela Retiring Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt goes to pray and then he walks over to the office of Paul Leone to turn over the reins of the Presidency . MLS - Dr. Paul Leone and President Romulo Betancourt shaking hands. This is the first time in history that the reins have been passed on without riots and bloodshed. MS - The Presidential Sash is passed from one President to the next. MS - The two men hugging
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Impeachment Hearings: House Judiciary Committee, July 26, 1974 (2/2)
[01.03.50] Mr. DRINAN. On June 20,1972, John Mitchell said that the Committee To Re-Elect had no legal, moral, or ethical responsibility for the Watergate break-in. Two days later the President publicly said John "Mitchell has accurately stated the facts. On that same day the President said the White House has had no involvement whatsoever in Watergate. The very next day, however, the President directed Haldeman to get the CIA to head off the FBI investigation. Everyone knows that really the intent to have the CIA tell the FBI that the CIA has an involvement in Mexico was because of the laundered money. The President of the United States had to know about the laundered Money because the checks had shown up and they were traceable to the bank account of Bernard Barker. Mr. Helms, the head of the CIA, told Mr. Haldeman and Mr. Ehrlichman that there was no involvement of the CIA in the Watergate and the FBI can go forward in Mexico and that we have no interest in that matter. But, Haldeman said that he feared that the FBI should not do this and Ehrlichman said that the President himself was concerned about the Mexican money and the Florida bank account. This is the President who 3 days earlier said we have no involvement whatsoever in the Watergate. And at the end of that meeting on June 23, Ehrlichman advised Walters that Mr. Dean would take over in negotiating with the CIA On June 26 Mr. Walters told Mr. Dean that no FBI investigator could compromise any CIA activities. On June 27, Doan met with 'Walters once again, and he had the effrontery to ask the CIA A to deviate from the basic purpose and to pay bail for the people who were involved in the Watergate, and to pay them salaries, And Mr. Walters said I shall not unless the President orders it. And Dean said that Mr. Ehrlichman has approved of it, and Dean went back to Ehrlichman and Ehrlichman said to Dean to push Walters a little harder. And the very next day Mr. Dean summoned Mr. Walters to his White House office, and Dean brought up, the five Mexican checks and the check of Mr. Dahlberg and Dean again asked Mr. Walters to have the CIA stop, the FBI investigation. There is no involvement. We have no specifies? On June 28, Dean and Ehrlichman knew that Gray and Helms were not going to collaborate and they canceled the whole thing. Other specific things happened in that long summer 2 years ago, Dean obtained raw data from Pat Gray on the FBI Watergate in., investigation and Mr. Dean turned that over to the Committee to Re-Elect. Attorney General Kleindienst had refused that information and that information impelled the investigation. Other things happened in that early August of 1972. The President himself asked Mr. Ehrlichman to arrange that Stans not be compelled to go before the grand jury, and that was granted, and similar compromising arrangements were made by the special prosecutor for Colson and Krogh and Young and Chapin and Strachan. They gave testimony before the prosecutors and not before the jury. The only possible explanation is the adoption by the President himself, of a policy to obstruct the investigation of the break-in. I Yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from California Mr. Waldie. The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman is recognized. Mr. WALDIE. Thank yon. Mr. Chairman. Back to the evening of the 20th where the President is having,"". conversation with John Mitchell and they are talking about Watergate, but the Phone unhappily is a phone that is not hooked to, taping system. It is one of those things that happened on the, 20th and we just have to live with those unhappy circumstances. So the only evidence we have of what they really talked about was a dictabelt where the President recorded as was his custom, the events that occurred during the day and on that dictabelt he got to this paragraph and said: "I also talked to John Mitchell, tried to cheer him up a bit. He is terribly chagrined that the activities of anybody attached to his committee should have been handled in such a manner. He only regretted he had not policed all people More effectively in his own organization." And that's another one of those, sad circumstances where then the is a 40-second or 42-second silence on that dictabelt that we have to put up with. But, after that we know then that John Mitchell knew what had happened. There is no question about it that John Mitchell told the President that CRP people were involved. Next day John Mitchell put out a press release saving he deplored that Watergate break-in but fortunately there were' no CRP official people involved, no campaign people. And Ron Ziegler joined in that and said you are right and neither are there any White House people in that third-rate burglary attempt. Now, John Mitchell lied. Everybody agrees. Everybody but John Mitchell, for the record. John Mitchell lied. There were campaign people involved and he knew it. Ron Ziegler lied. Ron Ziegler may not have known it because Ziegler has an ability not to understand many things that occur. But, there -were White House people, Hunt and the President know Hunt was there. Then on the 22d here is the overt acceptance of the President of the plan, the President asked in a press conference what he thought the Watergate burglary, were any members from the White House involved, and he said John Mitchell and Ron Ziegler have told you about that even and they told you the truth and I agree with them. He said there were no White House people involved. he said there were no Committee To Re-Elect the President people involved. There were. He knew about it. At that point he joined publicly, in front of all of the American people, the plan to cover tip as he, of necessity, thought he had to. He could have gone before the American people at that press conference and said it is incredible, this fellow Liddy went to my Attorney General out on the golf course, and told him to bail out these fellows. and I fired the Attorney General because he didn't report it and didn't put Liddy in jail. He could have said. I have been told that there is CRP money involved, that they found down there money from the Committee To Re-Elect the President, I can't believe that. That's beyond my--in fact, you know what I did, I threw an ashtray across the room when I was told that. That's what he could have said if he wanted to tell the truth. The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from Massachusetts has expired. Mr. WALDIE. But he said that there were no White House people and no campaign people involved. The President lied and the President covered up. 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Impeachment Hearings: House Judiciary Committee, July 26, 1974 (2/2)
[01.16.08] Mr. RAILSBACK. Mr. Chairman? Mr. Chairman? The CHAIRMAN. I recognize the gentleman from New York, Mr. Rangel, for 5 minutes. Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Chairman, and my colleagues, it seems to me that our constitutional responsibility is really to respond to the House of Representatives. It seems to me that we would be taking on more than mandate allows if we were to draw some very narrow allegations and not have the evidence that not have heard over all of these months presented to the Members of the House. I think their judgment as to final allegation, if any, is going to be presented to the Senate, we cannot be presumptive enough that it just meets our needs, and to cut ,off to them the benefit of all of this, all of these months of research. If members are having some type of a problem in terms of what they are prepared to vote for in connection with an article of impeachment, it seems to me that this does not necessarily have to be done in a parliamentary way to just delay these proceedings. I think that each member would. have the opportunity as to what in his own mind be believes is an impeachable offense. And I personally believe there is enough in the edited transcripts for that purpose. But, he should not preclude the information which we have compiled from reaching the floor of the House of Representatives We merely have the responsibility to report our findings to the House, and if we vote articles of impeachment they may, in fact be rejected by the House. If we suggest to them that three or four articles have been voted on by the majority of the members of this committee, and they see fit to expand, then it seems to me at this late time that if the -Members want facts, my God, we have had more than enough facts to reach questions of whether or not we should vote on a particular article. But, if there are Members that are. prepared to vote on a particular article, it seems to me we should be, prepared to vote on that, and then to Move so that we can work our will and report back to the House Of Representatives. I think that is our restrictive constitutional responsibility, and we should not allow our vote to be interpreted as being the vote of the House. Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Chairman, I yield to the gentleman from Ohio. *NOTE*-- The following segment was stricken from the official record of the hearing* MR. SEIBERLING. I would like to suggest that the other gentleman from Ohio owes this committee and Mr. Jenner an apology for what I consider to be an uprofessional and certainly an unjudicial comment on a completely extraneous matter with respect to Mr. Jenner. And I hope the gentleman would reflect that it is completely unbecoming t0 the dignity of these proceedings and in all my time on this committee its the first time I've ever heard this kind of thing in [unclear]. Mr. LATTA. Will the Gentleman Yield? Mr. SEIBERLING. I don't have the time. Mr. LATTA. Who has the time? The gentleman is entitled to his opinion and that's all it is. I might say that the gentleman, Mr. Mann, was referring to some of the items that, the articles that he agreed with, and then went into the matter of some of the activities of Mr. Jenner that he agreed with, and I'm not gonna give a blanket endorsement to what came out in the paper today---- Mr. SEIBERLING. Well, all I---- Mr. LATTA. Will the Gentleman please withhold just a minute--- Mr. SEIBERLING. I would hope the gentleman would reflect on what he said. Mr. LATTA. I think the American people are interested in what was in the article, and here it is--- [the time is withdrawn from Mr. LATTA.] *End of STRICKEN SECTION* The CHAIRMAN. There is still discussion, but the Chair is going to recess at this time until 8 o'clock. [01.20.28--DUKE v.o. begins] DUKE announces end of first five hours of debate. [cut DUKE in studio] DUKE calls it a turning point as members begin to debate specific articles. Became evident that the PRO-NIXON REPUBLICAN members intend to use a variety of tactic to slow down the process Indicatiop that the DEMOCRATIC majority may have difficulty in getting REPUBLICANS to sign on to ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT,but nonetheless, a majority does exist for IMPEACHMENT, and some form of ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT will almost certainly be submitted to the HOUSE Floor. LEHRER signs off (the morning sessions were videotaped and broadcast after the evening sessions, making the time well after midnight. [PBS ID] [01.22.34--OUT]
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Squacco heron hunting ON PART ONE
Little Egret
Little egret ON PART ONE
Squacco Heron
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