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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Tuesday, July 9, 1974
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Ehrlichman testifies, says he
didn't order office break-in
Lines form for historic
Supreme Court session
WASIBNGTON iJ', - Former
top presidential assistant John
Ehrlichman testified in his own
defense yesterday that he did
not authorize the Ellsberg
break-in.
Ehrlichman, until last April
30 President Nixon's chief do-
mestic adviser, also said that
misstatements he gave the FBI,
and a grand jury were the re-
sult of oversight and not in-
tentional.
FOLLOWING FIVE hours of
testimony from Ehrlichman, U.
S. District Judge Gerhard Ge-
sell ordered Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger to appear in
court at the Plumbers trial to-
morrow morning.
Kissinger is expected to re-
fute some testimony of a key
prosecution witness, D a v i d
Young, once an assistant to
both Kissinger and Ehrlichman.
In his testimony yesterday,
Ehrlichman said it never enter-
ed his mind that any of his aides
were planning a break-in at the
office of Daniel Ellsberg's psy-
chiatrist.
He characterized the opera-
tions of the Plumbers, a spe-
cial White House investigative
unit, as a general attempt to
pin down the motives of Daniel
Ellsberg in leaking the Penta-
gon Papers to the press.
ASKED specifically by de-
fense lawyer Henry Jones if he
authorized the Sept. 3, 1971,
break-in at the Beverly Hills,
Calif., office of Dr. Lewis Field-
ing, a psychiatrist who had
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treated Pentagon papers figure
Daniel Ellsberg, Ehrlichman re-
sponded, "No, sir."
"Did you know about it?"
Jones asked.
"No," Ehrlichman replied.
"Had you seen a plan as a
blueprint so to speak for a
break-in in advance?" Jones
asked,
"I never saw that," Ehrlich-
man said.
EHRLICHMAN testified that
when he signed a memo giving
approval to what ultimately was
the Ellsbergs break-in-, he
thought he was authorizing a
legitimate operation,
"I thought I was approving a
legal, conventional investiga-
tion," Ehrlichman said under
cross-examination.
Ehrlichman and three other
defendants are charged with
conspiracy to violate Fielding's
civil rights through the break-
in. In addition, Ehrlichman is
charged with one count of giv-
ing false statements to the FBI
and three perjury counts of ly-
ing to the Watergate grand
jury.
THE PERJURY counts ac-
cuse Ehrlichman of telling the
grand jury three different times
that he did not know until after
the break-in that the plumbers
unit was seeking information
for use in a psychological pro-
file of Ellsberg.
Ehrlichman testified that he
was telling the truth at the time
and was "as certain as I could
be of something two years be-
fore."
By JEFF DAY
Special To The Dafly
WASHINGTON - "The Unit-
ed States v. Nixon. Richard M.
Nixon v. The United States of
America."
With those words, Chief Jus-
tice Warren Burger yesterday
began the long awaited oral
arguments on two of the most
important ~cases the Supreme
Court will ever hear. One case
would compel President Nixon
to turn over 64 Watergate re-
lated tapes; the other would
determine whether the Water-
gate Grand Jury acted improp-
erly in labeling Nixon an unin-
dicted co-conspirator in the
Watergate coverup.
THE NIGHT before, 200 peo-
ple, mostly students, stood in a
park across from the court, lin-
ing up to get into yesterday's
historic session. As the cool
Washington evening set in, they
sat in the green grass in front
of . the Capitol, playing cards
and joking, but mostly just wait-
ing.
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sidewalk, hoping to catch a last
few hours of sleep before mid-'
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checking to make sure the line
was orderly, and enforce the
city ordinance prohibiting sleep-
ing in the streets.
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the line had moved from across
the street to the steps of the
court house. Before the three
hour session was over, the line
would have grown- to at least
1500 and more than 1208 peo-
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are forbidden, one chair re-
mained empty.
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Rehnquist quietly slipped out,
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in which his old boss, former
Atty. Gen. John Mitchell, is in-
volved.
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They applauded when Special
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