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On August 22, 1973, the President said at a news conference, in response to the question why he did not immediately turn over information concerning criminal wrong—doing to the prosecutors in March and April 1973, that he assumed that John Dean in March was telling Henry Petersen everything that Dean was telling the President; the President implied that he assumed the same about John Ehrlichman after March 30, 1973.


Item 44.4, p. 2335.

Item 5.1, tape recording and transcript of a meeting on the morning of March 21, 1973, Tr. 37.

Item 9.1, tape recording and transcript of a meeting on the afternoon of March 21, 1973. Tr. 18—19.

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