PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES OF 1972 SENATE RESOLUTION 60 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION WATERGATE AND RELATED ACTIVITIES For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 - Price $3 Stock No. 5270-01968 SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES (Established by S. Res. 60, 93d Congress, 1st Session) SAM J. ERVIN, JR., North Carolina, Chairman HERMAN E. TALMADGE, Georgia EDWARD J. GURNEY, Florida SAMUEL DASH, Chief Counsel and Staff Director ARTHUR S. MILLER, Chief Consultant (II) Haldeman, H. R., former assistant to the President, accompanied by John J. Wilson and Frank H. Strickler, counsels, testimony resumed.... Cushman, Gen. Robert E., Jr., Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps. Former 3289 INTERROGATION OF WITNESSES BY MEMBERS OF THE Ervin, Hon. Sam J., Jr. Haldeman: 3081-3086, 3118-3122, 3158-3162, 3183-3188, 3198, 3199, 3209. Helms: 3259- 3267, 3276-3279. Cushman: 3300-3304, 3308. Haldeman: 3091-3096, Talmadge, Hon. Herman E.. 3135-3138. Helms: 3256-3259. Cushman: 3305, 3306. TV EXHIBITS SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD No. 110-(3026) White House memorandum for H. R. Haldeman from No. 111-(3060) U.S. Senate subpena served H. R. Haldeman to appear 3313 3316 No. 112-(3060) U.S. Senate subpena served H. R. Haldeman to appear on No. 113-(3132) White House letter to John Wilson from J. Fred Buzhardt, No. 114-(3132) Justice Department letter to Samuel Dash, signed by No. 115-(3190) White House memorandum for H. R. Haldeman from No. 116 (3190) Personal and confidential letter to John Mitchell from No. 117 3318 3320 3321 3322 3324 No. 119-(3207) Text of Supreme Court decision in Abel v. United States- 3327 3329 3369 3380 3372 No. 122-(3266) Routing slip and memorandum dated August 30, 1971. Subject: Additional request from Mr. Howard Hunt for agency support_ 3377 No. 123-(3283) Routing slip and memorandum dated August 23, 1971. Subject: Request by Mr. Howard Hunt for special agency secretarial support.. No. 124-(3292) Transcript of taped meeting between General Cushman and Howard Hunt on July 22, 1971.. No. 125 (3295) Memorandum for John Ehrlichman from General Cushman regarding contact with Mr. Howard Hunt; dated January 3, 1973 No. 126 (3295) Memorandum for John Ehrlichman from General Cushman, dated January 10, 1973, regarding meeting with Howard Hunt on July 22, 1971.. No. 127-(3311) Memorandum for General Cushman with attached No. 128-(3311) White House memorandum for Richard Helms, Director, NOTE.-Figures in parentheses indicate page that exhibit was officially made part of the record. 3383 3390 3391 3392 3394 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES OF 1972 TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1973 U.S. SENATE, PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES, Washington, D.C. The Select Committee met, pursuant to recess, at 9:40 a.m., in room 318, Russell Senate Office Building, Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr. (chairman), presiding. Present: Senators Ervin, Talmadge, Inouye, Montoya, Baker, Gurney, and Weicker. Also present: Samuel Dash, chief counsel and staff director; Fred D. Thompson, minority counsel; Rufus L. Edmisten, deputy chief counsel; Arthur S. Miller, chief consultant; Jed Johnson, consultant; David M. Dorsen, James Hamilton, and Terry F. Lenzner, assistant chief counsels; R. Phillip Haire, Marc Lackritz, William T. Mayton, Ronald D. Rotunda, and Barry Schochet, assistant majority counsels; Eugene Boyce, hearings record counsel; Donald G. Sanders, deputy minority counsel; Howard S. Liebengood, H. William Shure, and Robert Silverstein, assistant minority counsels; Pauline O. Dement, research assistant; Eiler Ravnholt, office of Senator Inouye; Robert Baca, office of Senator Montoya; Ron McMahan, assistant to Senator Baker; A. Searle Field, assistant to Senator Weicker; Michael Flanigan, assistant publications clerk. Senator ERVIN. The Select Committee will come to order, and the counsel will proceed to question the witness. Mr. DASH. Mr. Haldeman, I think your statement was quite lengthy and it covered much of the ground which our questions are going to be aimed at but to go over again, and I think you mentioned how you started your political activities with the President. Could you tell us how and when you first met President Nixon? TESTIMONY OF HARRY ROBINS HALDEMAN, ACCOMPANIED BY JOHN J. WILSON AND FRANK H. STRICKLER, COUNSELS-Resumed Mr. HALDEMAN. We met only very briefly on first impression in 1951, I believe, when he was a U.S. Senator from California and I was in Washington on a visit, and paid a courtesy call on the Senator's office. I had no continuing contact with him from this time on until 1956 when I actually started Mr. DASH. How did it come about that you started to work with him politically? |