Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 12, 1973 (1/2)
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 12, 1973 (1/2)
[00.12.20] Mr. EDMISTEN. Who in the whole organization would you consider your superiors, and would you just go up the line from you? Mr. STANS. Well, I do not know that I had any superiors. It, was a unique situation. The finance committee was separate from the campaign committee. The campaign committee exercised a dominance over the finance, committee by their spending policies, forcing us to raise enough money to pay everything they committed. But I had no superior. I would have taken instructions from the President if he gave me any but, he did not, and I would have been influenced by requests from certain people in the White House from time to time but I do not, believe I had a superior in that, sense. Mr. EDMISTEN Well, now, I just, have one more question here. I want, you to think carefully, Stans: Did you have a meeting On June 24, after the break-in', with Mr. John Mitchell to find out from him what, had happened? Mr. STANS. I am not sure of the exact, date. I had meetings from time to time with Mr. Mitchell. I probably had One on June 24. Mr. EDMISTEN. Did You ask him what happened at that meeting, if you recall it? Mr. STANS. I do not, recall that I asked him that, question. Certainly I was curious about it, and it would not surprise me if I had. I have no recollection of specifically talking about, that, subject. That was a, week after the break-in, specifically Mr. EDMISTEN. Yes. Do You recall at! any time Mr. Mitchell telling you that, there were others involved beside-, those. who were apprehended? Mr. STANS. No, I do not Mr. EDMISTEN. At a meeting of that nature about that time? Mr. STANS. No, I do not. Mr. EDMISTEN. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.. [00.14.29--LEHRER in studio] LEHRER states STANS' testimony will continue [PBS network ID--title screen "SENATE HEARINGS ON CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES"] [00.16.58--LEHRER] LEHRER states that in the last hour of testimony, STANS will be questioned about the activities of the CRP Budget Committee, and "the activities of the 'mystery man to end all mystery men', G. Gordon LIDDY". [00.17.14--committee room]