Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 6, 1973 Testimony of Hugh Sloan
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 6, 1973 Testimony of Hugh Sloan
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 6, 1973 Testimony of Hugh Sloan [00.26.05--MacNEILL in studio] MacNEILL summarizes first hour of SLOAN'S testimony about approximately $2 million in cash payments, including those to Gordon LIDDY, and the efforts of MAGRUDER and LaRUE to get SLOAN to keep silent Addresses the 70,000 letters received by viewers of the hearings broadcasts [shot of a mailbag with many letters strewn about, titles show quotes from viewer letters] MacNEILL reads from the letters, v.o., notes that 99 percent of letters have been positive in tone, but reads a negative letter for balance, from an Arkansas woman who claims it is "a bunch of lies trying to make the Democrats money" MacNEILL urges viewers to send their responses to their local Public Television station, and urges viewers to give money to those stations [00.28.34-DO NOT USE PBS network ID- 28.56