Nixon talks to public; Committee gets documents
WASHINGTON UP) — Fighting to
blunt impeachment moves, President
Nixon said Monday night he would
give a House committee and then make
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Mike Pl radio audience his activities in the
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The President said he would allow
the senior Democrat and Republican on
the House Judiciary Committee to listen
to the tapes and verify that none of
the deletions relate to relevant Water
gate matters.
His action, Nixon said, would quash
the “vague general impression of mas
sive wrongdoing” in the nation’s high
est office. Nixon said he has nothing
to hide, and the tapes will show it.
The President acknowledged that
portions of the conversation are am
biguous because they are recordings of
individuals “just thinking out loud.”
“Never before have records so private
been made public,” he said, adding that
he was placing his trust “in the basic
fairness of the American people.”
As Nixon spoke in a nationally broad
cast speech, the transcripts were
stacked beside his Oval Office desk,
each set in a notebook. One, emblazoned
with the presidential seal, faced the
television cameras.
Nixon said the notebooks contain
more than 1,200 pages of transcripts
of private conversations he held be
tween Sept. 15, 1972, and April 27,
1973, with regard to Watergate.
He said they include all relevant
portions of all subpoenaed conversa
tions.
The President said he would make
public not only these transcripts, but
also transcripts covering tape record
ings of 19 other conversations, and
more than 700 White House documents,
which already have been delivered to
the House committee and the Water
gate special prosecutor.
Nixon acknowledged there are am
biguities in the transcripts, and that
they include material that will be em
barrassing to him and to his aides.
In releasing them to the committee
and the public, Nixon said, he is breach
ing the principle of presidential con
fidentiality, but considers it necessary
to do so to clear up the Watergate case.
The President also said he does not
know how the celebrated IS^-minute
gap in one tape recording could have
occurred. But he said he is certain it
was not done purposely by his secre
tary, Rose Mary Woods.
Directly challenging the testimony of
his former White House counsel, John
W. Dean III, Nixon said again he knew
nothing of Watergate involvement or
cover-up until Dean told him about it
on March 21, 1973.
Nixon said Dean’s disclosures on
March 21, 1973, were “a sharp sur
prise” to him. The President said he
asked more than 150 questions of Dean.
He quoted Dean as saying at the time
he could tell Nixon had no knowledge
of the case.
In Senate testimony, Dean had said
that at a meeting on the morning of
March 21, Nixon said he was impressed
with Dean’s knowledge of the Water
gate case and its ramifications, “but
he did not seem particularly concerned
with their implications . . .”
In saying that he would make tran
scripts available to the House commit
tee weighing his impeachment, Nixon
said the senior committee members,
Rep. Peter Rodino, D.-N.J., and Ed
ward Hutchinson, R.-Mich., need only
satisfy themselves that the transcripts
are accurate.
Nixon spoke with a stack of note
books at his side. He said the tran
scripts they contain do not cover every
thing that is on the tape recordings,
subpoenaed by the House committee in
Che Battalion
its inquiry into possible impeachment.
But he said they cover everything
relevant to that inquiry, “the rough as
well as the smooth.”
The House committee issued a sub
poena for tape recordings of 42 White
House conversations, with Nixon’s re
sponse due by 10 a.m. Tuesday.
Rodino had said earlier in the day
that his committee would “accept no
less than the material specified,” the
tapes themselves, in response to the
subpoena.
Another committee member. Rep.
Don Edwards, D.-Calif., said any pro
cedure for screening the tapes that
would leave the committee without the
actual tapes in its possession after
ward would be “totally unacceptable.”
“I want there to be no question re
maining about the fact that the Presi
dent has nothing to hide in this mat
ter,” Nixon said.
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Tuesday, April 30, 1974
Senate to discuss
filling SG positions
IE DIFFICULTIES of disabled students traveling on campus were demonstrated Fri-
ay in the Wheelchair Awareness Day. Faculty and students like Steve Ryter (left) and
James Roach were given wheelchairs and allowed to go about their regular schedule.
3 hoto by Kathy Young)
Judicial Senate and University
Committee appointments will face
the scrutiny of the Student Sen
ate Wednesday night.
The Senate meeting in room 601
of the Rudder Tower at 7:30 will
discuss four appointments to the
SG Judicial Board, three to the
Senate and about 150 to Univer
sity Committees.
The four judicial vacancies are
chairman, two sophomore seats
and one senior seat. Larry Mc-
Roberts, Michael Perrin and Jerri
Ward have applied for the chair
manship. The applicants for the
two sophomore positions are Bill
Keeling, Craig Delery, Steve
Johnson, Barb Palmer, Larry
Wingo, David Haupe, Shannon
er in prei
. :30 p.raJ
Forewoman says 6 jury doubts Dean’
Walker, Jayne Condrey and Chris
tine Warren. Two persons have
applied for the senior seat, Doug
Thorpe and Tim Jordan.
The three Senate positions are
all graduate seats. They are from
the College of Agriculture, Engi
neering and one off-campus living
area.
The speaker pro-tem of the Sen
ate will be elected by the sena
tors. The speaker pro-tem need
not be a member of the Senate to
be elected.
University committee appoint
ments are also up for approval by
the Senate. It takes a two-thirds
majority to approve the appoint
ments made by Steve Eberhard,
SG president. This provision
passed in the package of amend
ments earlier this spring. The list
is for 39 committees with at least
two appointments on each com
mittee.
NEW YORK (A*)—The forewo
man of the jury that acquitted
John N. Mitchell and Maurice H.
Stans said Monday the jurors
doubted the truthfulness of John
W. Dean III, a key government
witness at the criminal conspiracy
trial of the former Cabinet mem
bers.
Sybil Kucharski, 21, a West
chester County bank teller, said
she and the other jurors wore
convinced Mitchell and Stans told
the truth when they took the wit
ness stand in their own defense
at their 48-day federal trial.
Dean’s credibility came into
question when he admitted he had
pleaded guilty to a charge of
obstruction of justice in the Wa
tergate scandal in hope of draw
ing a lighter sentence, Miss
Kucharski said on NBC’s “Today”
show.
Vice President Gerald R. Ford
said in a statement issued by his
Washington office that the jury
verdict in the Mitchell-Stans case
“says to me that John Dean’s
credibility has been severely erod
ed.”
Ousted by President Nixon as
White House counsel, Dean is
expected to testify for the gov
ernment at other trials spawned
by the 1972 Watergate break-in
and subsequent coverup attempt.
He also is regarded as a major
witness should President Nixon
be impeached and tried.
Mitchell, 60, the former attor
ney general, and Stans, 66, one
time commerce secretary, were
accused of perjury and conspir
ing to impede a Securities and
Exchange Commission investiga
tion of financier Robert L. Ves-
co’s financial empire in return
for a secret $200,000 Vesco con
tribution to President Nixon’s
1972 re-election campaign.
Miss Kucharski said the jury
in its 26 hours of deliberations
paid only scant attention to what
was seen as a key element of the
government’s case against Stans
and Mitchell—that Mitchell made
19 calls to Dean in an attempt to
hinder the SEC’s Vesco investiga
tion.
“They made a big thing of it,”
said Miss Kucharski, a Democrat
who voted for George McGovern
for president in 1972. “We didn’t
make it a big thing.”
These people will be serving on
the following committees next
year pending approval of two-
thirds of the Senate and appoint
ment by President Williams.
ACADEMIC APPEALS PANEL
John Nash Michael Perrin
Debi Blackmon Shannon Walker
(alternate) (alternate)
AD HOC CALENDER COMMITTEE
Dale Foster Curtis Leonhardt
AD HOC COMMITTEE ON
EDUCATION ACCELERATION
Curtis Leonhardt Kay Zenner
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON
FACULTY EVALUATION
PROCEDURES
Jeff Dunn Robert Shokes
Tom Taylor Shannon Walker
ARCHIVES AND HISTORICAL
COMMITTEE
Kay Evans Pam Jewell
BONFIRE AND YELL LEADER
COMMITTEE
Louie Gohmert Jenni Guido
Joe Hughes Warren Russell
BOOKSTORE ADVISORY
COMMITTEE
Bill Flores Rick Gray
Marianne Hamm George Lippe
Curt Marsh
CS eligible for
flood insurance
Flood insurance will soon be
available to College Station resi
dents located on a flood plain.
This insurance, said City Man
ager North Bar dell, will now be
Student rights bill
preamble approved
unanimously by R&R
The preamble to the student
Bill of Rights was unanimously
approved Monday by the Uni
versity Rules and Regulations
Committee.
The committee also began de
liberations on the Student Life
section of the handbook.
Committee members decided to
put the entire list of student
rights and responsibilities in the
front of the University Rules and
Regulations handbook before mak
ing final approval. The preamble
reads as follows:
“The following statement of
students’ rights and responsibili
ties reflects the philosophical base
upon which University Regula
tions are built. This philosophy
acknowledges the existence of
both rights and responsibilties
which are inherent to an indi-
idual as a student at Texas
A&M University and as a citizen
of this country. It should be
recognized that these rights and
responsibilities are not all encom
passing, but that those rights and
responsibilities not stated herein
or in other documents relating to
the University are implicit and
extend to all members of the Uni
versity community. Specific ap
plications of this philosophy are
contained in University Regula
tions.”
Among its major changes the
committee decided to make refer
ence to Texas House Bills 141
and 314, prohibiting disruptive
activities and maintaining order
on the campus or university
property.
The Vice President for Student
Services’ office recommended
there be an addition to paragraph
47, noting that the University
Police could file charges if a stu
dent’s rights were violated by
another person, if the student so
wishes.
Paragraphs 48 through 64 were
sent to committee for further
study to be considered by the
committee next Tuesday.
The committee also recognized
a conflict between the woreward
to the handbook and the handbook
itself.
The foreward implies the hand
book is only intended for students
while many of the rules within
the book are intended for faculty/
staff members, such as posting
grades.
Roger Miller, staff assistant to
President Jack K. Williams, said
he thought the situation could be
remedied by slightly changing the
foreward.
offered by the city through pri
vate insurance companies.
“Private insurance companies
would not provide flood insur
ance without federal control,”
said Bardell, adding that it was
a Housing Urban Development
program offered to cities con
forming to flood hazard regula
tions.
Areas in College Station on a
flood plain are off Wolf Pen
Creek (under Highway 6 at the
Highway 30 intersection) and , * •
Bee Creek (which forks into three ;
branches in South College Sta- v
tion).
Bardell said reasons the city i __
took out the flood insurance pro- .—— —
gram were to allow residents in
areas subject to flooding to be HIS MUSIC setting the atmosphere, Isaac Perlman performs
able to take out flood insurance in the Rudder Center Monday. His appearance was sponsored
and to prevent further building by the Opera and Performing Arts Society. (Photo by Kathy
on this plain. Young)
“The only cost to the city is
that involved in the administra
tion of the project,” said Bardell.
Insurance costs will run 25
cents per $100 of coverage per
year on residential structures.
Content coverage on such struc
tures will run 35 cents per $100.
Commercial building coverage
will run 40 cents per $100 for
the structure and 75 cents per
$100 for the contents.
“It is a voluntary program
which gives the resident or com
mercial owner the opportunity to
buy the insurance if they want,”
said Bardell.
Bardell said HUD would come
in and delineate the flood hazard
areas for the city. He also said
the flood plains were designated
by a survey taken by the Corps
of Engineers.
CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE
Kathleen Adams Chris Lawson
Mary Beth Smith
CHAPEL COMMITTEE
Steve Canter Richard Ekrall
Roger Monk
CONCESSIONS COMMITTEE
Kay Evans Mike Hatch
Ronnie Maddox
CONVOCATIONS COMMITTEE
Dan Anderson Susan Carstens
Louie Gohmert
CURRICULUM COMMITTEE
Sherry Alebis Karla Mourltsen
DUNCAN MENU BOARD
Lee Billingsley Bob Ingram
Mike Marchand Tom Walker
Mark Williams
ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND
HEALTH COMMITTEE
Scott Price Greg Smith
Tom Woodfin
HONORS PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Mark Edwards Cheryl Frlcke
Tom Swygert
HOSPITAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Dave Capehart Susan Fontaine
Clint Miller George Thllen
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Rajesh Kent LaTonya Perrin
Deb Sengupta
JUNIOR COLLEGE RELATIONS
COMMITTEE
David Finley Roxy Rudd
KRUEGER-DUNN MENU BOARD
Cecil Albrecht Joe Carter
Tom Latimer Lucy Stearman
Cindy Wallace
LAUNDRY COMMITTEE
Cecil Albrecht Tom Dawson
Susan Fontaine Hank Maddux
Ed Minnich Gerard Pelletier
Cindy Wallace
LIBRARY COUNCIL
Mary Ellen Martin Troie Pruett
Frederick Schlemmer
LONG RANGE PLANNING
COMMITTEE
Barry Brooks Steve Wakefield
Tom Woodfin
NEW DORM COMPLEX COMMITTEE
Jim Campbell Curt Henderson
Michele Moss
NEW STUDENT COMMITTEE
Cindy Murray Trole Pruett
Tom Strickland
REVIEW BOARD A
Gwen Flynt David Hampe
Billy Keeling
REVIEW BOARD B
Paula East Russell Hamley
RESIDENCE HALL COMMITTEE
Kathleen Adams Rick Gray
Maryan Hughes George Lippe
Hank Maddux David McCabe
Warren Russell
RULES AND REGULATIONS
COMMITTEE
Steve Eberhard John Tyler
Jerri Ward
SBISA MENU BOARD
Randy Hohlaus Maryan Hughes
Greg Johnson Missie Miller
(See SG, p. 4)
External Affairs meetings
scheduled for this week
Several External Affairs sub
committee meetings have been
scheduled for the upcoming week.
Community Relations Commit
tee, which acts as a liaison with
the City Council and investigates
possible solutions to community-
related subjects of interest to stu
dents, will meet tonight at 7.
Fair Housing Commission,
which aids students in finding
housing and ill working out sat
isfactory solutions to tenant-land
lord disputes, will also meet to
night at 6:30.
The National Student Lobby
Committee will meet Thursday at
7 p.m. This committee deals with
student-oriented issues on a na
tional level and acts as coordina
tor for Texas members of NSL.
Monday the Business and Con
sumer Relations Committee,
which handles consumer com
plaints and the student discount
program, will meet at 7 p.m.
The Texas Student Association-
Texas Student Lobby Committee,
which researches state issues con
cerning students, attends semi
nars in various parts of Texas
and runs the annual TSA conven
tion which A&M will host next
September.
All meetings will be in the Stu
dent Government office or in ad
jacent meeting rooms. Interested
students are invited to attend.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
Adv.