Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 Testimony of Maurice Stans
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 Testimony of Maurice Stans
[00.43.42] Mr. STANS. Well, Senator, with the greatest of respect, that is really not what I said. I worried about all of these things. I devoted my time to them, I gave consideration to the handling of the accounting for these various items. Mr. Sloan and I discussed them over and over again and we exercised our best judgment on the basis of advice of counsel. Senator TALMADGE. Thank you, Mr. Stans. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, I have no further questions. Senator ERVIN. The committee will stand in recess until 2 o'clock. [00.44.22--LEHRER in studio] LEHRER describes Sen. TALMADGE'S attitude as one of disbelief that STANS did not have better records of the cash disbursements made in the campaign. Solicits viewer response to the coverage, directs viewers to write to their local public tv stations. {PBS network ID--title screen "SENATE HEARINGS ON CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES"--LEHRER in studio] [00.47.27-LEHRER introduces Sen. ERVIN's questioning as "the toughest of the day and perhaps of the entire hearings thus far] [00.47.42--committee room, ERVIN gavelling] Senator ERVIN. The committee will come to order. I am going to ask the witness questions about the exhibit testified to by the witness, Sloan, entitled "Transactions as of April 7, 1972, cash deposits and disbursements including committed items." This has already been entered in the record as exhibit No. and I ask that this copy be handed to Mr. Stans. This represents, as I understand, what Mr. Sloan, the Treasurer of the Finance Committee To Re-Elect the President, testified was the cash receipts of the finance committee down to April 7, 1972, plus such portions of those receipts that had been submitted for various purposes. If my arithmetic is correct, this shows the total cash receipts in excess of $1 million-approximately $1,777,000, is that correct? Mr. STANS. That is the figure on the statement, yes, sir. Senator ERVIN. Well, is it a correct figure, approximately? Mr. STANS. So far as I know from information that I have acquired during the entire course of my chairmanship of the committee, it is approximately correct. [00.49.46]