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Wednesday, October 04, 1972
Wright Patman complains to Judge John Sirica who is presiding over the burglary case that his gag order forbidding discussion of the case with government officials effectively played into the White House's plans by allowing everyone to use the ruling as an excuse to not talk. Sirica amends his own ruling the next day.
"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