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Thursday April 19, 1973
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This Day In 1970's History: Thursday April 19, 1973
  • President Nixon and his aide John Dean now appear to be at odds over the Watergate bugging case. Without White House approval, Dean issued a statement saying that he will not become a scapegoat in the case. Press secretary Ron Ziegler conceded that neither he nor the President knew about Dean's statement until after it was issued.

    Numerous new indictments are expected in the Watergate affair. Attorney General Richard Kleindienst announced that he is withdrawing from the case because of personal and professional relations with some of those involved in the bugging. Indications are that he is referring to former Attorney General John Mitchell, who along with Dean is implicated in the bugging and its cover-up. Former deputy campaign director Jeb Magruder reportedly told of a meeting with Mitchell, Dean and G. Gordon Liddy in which plans for bugging the Watergate were approved. Magruder is also said to have talked about Mitchell's and Dean's bribery of the convicted Watergate defendants so that they would not name others involved in the case. Mitchell denied Magruder's charges.

    Attorney Peter Wolf claims that he has a client who possessed documents taken from the White House desk of E. Howard Hunt -- documents which included plans to bug the Watergate. Wolf says that despite his advice to expose those documents, his client returned the documents to the Nixon campaign organization shortly before election day. Wolf claims that he told prosecuting attorney Earl Silbert of the documents, but Silbert disregarded them. Silbert denied Wolf's story.

    E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy reappeared in Washington court today, Hunt to give testimony to the grand jury, Liddy to confer with attorneys. Former Nixon appointments secretary Dwight Chapin is also back in DC. Chapin refused comment on the case, including any comment on whether he hired Donald Segretti to spy on Democrats. Herbert Kalmbach, President Nixon's personal attorney who reportedly paid off the saboteurs on Chapin's instructions, was interviewed by Earl Silbert today.

    Aides to Senator Lowell Weicker claim that Weicker's safe, which contains files on the Senator's own investigation of the Watergate case, was opened during the night. No documents are missing. [CBS]

  • The United States is taking steps to try to end the fighting in Southeast Asia, announcing that Hanoi will get no postwar aid unless it stops violating the truce agreement. U.S. ships carrying out minesweeping operations have left North Vietnam and put in at Hong Kong. Minesweeping operations are stopped because of North Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia and the continued infiltration of North Vietnamese troops into South Vietnam. Secretary of State William Rogers warned North Vietnam that the U.S. will not give aid to Hanoi unless it upholds the terms of the truce.

    Maurice Williams, the U.S. negotiator who was in Paris to discuss aid for North Vietnam, has been recalled to Washington. The U.S. might send Henry Kissinger back to Paris to try to salvage the agreement known as "peace with honor." [CBS]

  • The Pentagon Papers trial concluded in Los Angeles. The case against Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo goes to the jury next week. [CBS]

  • Four people were caught in a cross-fire between British soldiers and snipers in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A woman and a boy were shot; the boy died, but the woman is expected to live. [CBS]

  • President Nixon sent his revenue-sharing proposal to Congress. His plan would replace such programs as Model Cities and urban renewal. [CBS]
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