famed criminal lawyer william bennett will try to question the five intruders a week from tomorrow and to take depositions inside the committee to re-elect the president to the white house. two of the intruders had a name and phone number of another ex-cia agent who works as a part-time consultant to the white house. o brien refused to link the committee and white house directly to what happened. he knows more than he is telling he says and he says he feels he is on the right track in suing the committee as a co-conspirator with the five men. carl stern, nbc news, washington. right after the watergate burglary happened, right away, the dnc filed a civil lawsuit against the committee to re-elect the president saying that wasn t just some random assemblage of burglars. the lawsuit said, president nixon, you did this. your campaign did this. you have to answer for it. you saw the sober coverage the night the lawsuit was filed
president nixon. saying that burglary at the headquarters, that was not just a burglary, it was a dirty trick by the president and the president should have to answer for it. lawrence o brien today filed a suit for $1 million for the reelection of the president and five men arrested early saturday who were charged with breaking into the party s national headquarters at the watergate in washington. carl stern has the report. i wish to emphasize that the deadly seriousness of which we view of this entire matter. i am pleased to know that the fbi is investigating this case. i am shocked to learn that the white house through its official spokesperson deems unworthy of notice of blatant act of
president and against five men arrested early saturday who were charged with breaking into the party s national headquarters at the watergate in washington. carl stern has a report. i wish to emphasize as national chairman of this party the deadly seriousness with which we view this matter. i am pleased to note that the fbi is investigating this case. i am shocked to learn that the white house, through its official spokesman, deems unworthy of notice this blatant act of political espionage. william bennett will try to question the five intruders a week from tomorrow and to take depositions inside the committee to re-elect the president and the white house. two of the intruders had a name and phone number of another ex-cia agent who works as a part-time consultant to the white house. o brien refused to link the committee and white house directly to what happened.
lawsuit against the re-election campaign for president nixon. saying that that little burglary at the headquarters, that wasn t just a moment of intrigue, it was a trick by the president and the president should have to answer for it. lawrence o brien chairman of the democratic national committee today filed suit for $1 million against the committee for the re-election of the president and against five men arrested early saturday who were charged with breaking into the party s national headquarters at the watergate in washington. carl stern has a report. i wish to emphasize as national chairman of this party the deadly seriousness with which we view this matter. i am pleased to note that the fbi is investigating this case. i am shocked to learn that the white house, through its official spokesman, deems unworthy of notice this blatant act of political espionage.
even if you know nothing about watergate, one thing that everybody knows for sure about the saturday night massacre in watergate, one thing that everybody knows is that it happened on a saturday night. right? this was nbc nightly news on the friday night right before the saturday night massacre. it was a very suspenseful friday night. all day today, washington waited for the president s lawyers to take the next step in the great and historic case in the nine disputed secret white house tapes. today was the deadline for the president to appeal to the supreme court a lower court rule ing on the tapes, which went against him. but for a reason as yet unexplained, the president s men have not filed the appeal. here is more from carl stern. reporter: the cause of late business connected with supreme court s friday conferences, the clerk of the court will be here until 9:00 tonight, giving the white house extra hours to meet the deadline. the president s lawyers were in