The Senate Watergate Hearings - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

The Senate Watergate hearings got underway May 17 and were the major focus of Watergate developments during the summer. A parade of clean-cut, young, contrite former CRP and White House aides appeared, some to admit perjury during earlier ...See moreThe Senate Watergate hearings got underway May 17 and were the major focus of Watergate developments during the summer. A parade of clean-cut, young, contrite former CRP and White House aides appeared, some to admit perjury during earlier investigations. They drew a picture of political sabotage that went far beyond Watergate, motivated by extreme loyalty to Nixon and by a belief that any tactics against people who had supported anti-Vietnam war demonstrations were acceptable. Perhaps the most important revelation of the committee hearings came as a result of closed-session questioning of Alexander P. Butterfield, that the President's offices were equipped with a special voice-activated system which tape recorded all conversations. The existence of the tapes entirely changed the Watergate case; presumably the evidence existed to prove or disprove Dean's allegations.See less