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Sunday, June 03, 1973

  • The lead story in the Post and New York Times claims Dean will testify that Nixon was deeply involved in the cover up and was aware that the cost to buy the burglary defendants silences could reach $1 million and that Nixon wasn't not concerned about paying that.

Monday, June 03, 1974

  • The trial of Ehrlichman and Colson involving the Ellsberg burglary case breaks open when Colson surprisingly pleads guilty.

"I think that there's no doubt about the seriousness of the problem we've got. We have a cancer within—close to the presidency, that's growing. It's growing daily. It's compounding. "

John Dean | President's Special Counsel