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find information that
Democratic Party and to i
Telephone & Telegraph C<
Dean made his remai
Tuesday night at a lecture
Issues Committ of the
Union.
THE BREAK-IN at
headquarters occurred, D
attempts to burglarize
nominee George McGovt
ters failed.
Dean said the origin of
be traced to the spring
Richard M. Nixon "had
series of task force report
conduct his 1972 re-electi
The reports were on ev
and Nixon noticed a "co
reports, Dean said.
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memo, dated April 1971,
White House chief of staff,
wanted "in 1972 a far be
operation than we had in
"That memo would star
would ultimately becori
Watergate," Dean said.
In the spring of 1972 it
campaign year for Republ
reason was the Democr
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cnarges agamsi an aueg<
Republican Party.
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resigned to head the re-e
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ean said, after three ot
Democratic presiden
2rn's campaign headqi
the Watergate scandal
of 1971 when ex-Presid
just completed readinj
s on what would be don<
on ramnaiffn "
ery facet of the campa
nspicuous absence" in
bsence, Nixon directe<
to H.R. "Bob" Haldem
to inform Haldman thai
itter intelligence-gather
1968," Dean said,
t a process, that as I se<
ne the break-in at
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lent negative information a
g a said.
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campaign headquarters
ign in at the Democratic n
the Watergate occurred, he
"EVERYONE THOU<
I a being stirred up and pnr
an, was the chairman of
the Committee," Dean said
ing Larry O'Brien was a
Nixon White House bee
i it, paign manager of John
the Nixon in the 1960 presic
There was no "deep
bad Watergate break-in," D
am They were "fishing
on neutralize the ITT hear
the Democrats, Dean said.
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had system did work. "It v
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ition, he said.
ring very little to do with
indienst was qualified or not
but a great deal to do with
ue that the Republicans had
a deal with the ITT corn
had allegedly given some
>200,000 in facilities for the
ir convention in San Diego,"
legative publicity, the relirPrtpH
ltc
ided by Gordon Liddy, to find
bout the Democrats, Dean
tempt failed at McGovern's
was the night the first breakational
headquarters at the
said.
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the Democratic National
much-feared figure in the
a use he had been the camF.
Kennedy, who defeated
lential election, Dean said.
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for information" to help
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