John W. Dean III's Files, 7/9/1970 - 4/30/1973

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John W. Dean III's Files, 7/9/1970 - 4/30/1973

1970-1973

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The John W. Dean III's Files series comprises material which he periodically retired to the White House Central Files between 1971 and 1973 as well as those which remained in his office at the time Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents sealed it shortly following the White House announcement of his resignation. Several groups of materials were integrated into appropriate subseries. Frequent correspondents in the John W. Dean III's Files series include H. R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, Charles W. Colson, Henry A. Kissinger, Peter M. Flanigan, Egil (Bud) Krogh, Bruce A. Kehrli, Frederic V. Malek, Clark MacGregor and Richard G. Kleindienst. The Correspondence Files subseries combines several of Dean's chronological and general correspondence files together with two small chronological files attributed to White House Counsel Office staffer, Roy E. (Pete) Kinsey, and summer intern, Peter V. Baugher. Dean's files include the routine correspondence of the counsel's office as well as his departmental correspondence as Associate Deputy Attorney General. Both Kinsey's and Baugher's files are only for the year 1972. Among topics covered in this subseries are applicability of state election laws to presidential candidates, amnesty issues, the federal death penalty, disposition of presidential seal requests, request for presidential pardons, the court-martial of Lt. William L. Calley, conflict-of-interest laws, applicability of the Hatch Act, campaign filing requirements, protests, demonstrations and advice to the President on such subjects as honorary memberships and estate planning. The Subject File subseries is the largest and most varied of the John W. Dean III's Files series. It includes material concerning proposed environmental, economic and social legislation, international laws and treaties, presidential commissions, national security, domestic intelligence, conflict-of-interest laws and the coordination of the President's multiple roles as Chief Executive, head of the Republican Party, candidate and private citizen. A substantial portion of this subseries pertains to the court-martial of Lt. Calley; the nominations of William J. Casey to the Securities and Exchange Commission, of Richard G. Kleindienst to the Office of the Attorney General, and of Virginia Congressman Richard H. Poff to the Supreme Court; foreign activities and political contributions of International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) and responses of the President to Watergate allegations. The Subject File: Demonstrations and Domestic Intelligence subseries contains materials concerning antiwar demonstrations and radical groups and individuals. It consists of intelligence reports, analyses and summaries from a number of organizations including the Intelligence Evaluation Committee (IEC), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Secret Service, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Agency (NSA) and local police departments. Topics include civil disorder on and off campuses, extremist organizations, the 1971 May Day demonstrations, disturbances during the Democratic and Republican national conventions, international terrorism and the protection of political officials. The Name File, Conflict of Interest subseries documents the efforts of the counsel's office to identify and avoid potential conflict of interest problems that could arise from the private interests and associations of potential Presidential appointees or White House staff members. This subseries consists of trust agreements, personal financial statements, affidavits and confidential statements of employment and financial interests. At the end of the series, there is a chronological file containing, primarily, carbons of Dean's office responses to conflict of interest reviews on individuals who were being considered for appointment to positions in departments, agencies, bureaus, commissions and boards. The Congressional Hearings on the Nominations of Richard G. Kleindienst and L. Patrick Gray III subseries documents the interest of the counsel's office in the proceedings of those particular Senate confirmation hearings. This subseries consists primarily of typed transcripts prepared by the Washington D. C. firm of Ward & Paul, Inc.; shorthand reporters for congressional committees. The Kleindienst transcripts are related to the second hearings held before the Senate Judiciary Committee on his confirmation to succeed John N. Mitchell as Attorney General. Kleindienst had been confirmed in earlier hearings, but demanded a reopening of the hearings in order to clear his name of charges raised by Washington Post columnist Jack Anderson about collusion in the International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) anti-trust settlement. The transcripts cover the proceedings from March 6 to April 20, 1972. Some of the transcripts bear cover references to "Mitchell" or "Geneen" to indicate those volumes containing portions of the testimony of the former Attorney General or ITT president Harold G. Geneen. For reasons unknown, at least four volumes of the transcripts are missing: volumes 1, 2, 11 and 17. In some instances, there are duplicate copies of particular transcripts. Topics covered by the Kleindienst portion of this subseries include all aspects of the ITT anti-trust settlement, the Dita Beard memorandum and ITT's $400,000 contribution of cash and services to the San Diego Republican National Convention. While the Kleindienst transcripts appear fragmentary, the Gray transcripts seem complete. They document the proceedings held before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the confirmation of acting FBI Director, L. Patrick Gray, III; as FBI Director. They cover the proceedings from February 28 to March 9, 1973. The White House ultimately withdrew Gray's nomination as the hearings probed FBI's handling of the Watergate investigation under Gray's supervision. At the end of the Gray transcripts, there are three files containing additional responses or documentary materials to this testimony. Additionally, there is a single file containing electrostatic copies of Gray's correspondence with James O. Eastland, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in response to requests for documentary materials from the Justice Department's files. The 1970 Campaign File subseries consists of electrostatic copies of materials maintained by former Nixon political aide and fund-raising specialist, Jack A. Gleason. The materials in this subseries are related to the Town House Project, a White House approved operation which funneled money from a secret multi-million dollar slush fund to select Republican candidates in the 1970 congressional and gubernatorial elections, and Gleason's role in it. Materials include correspondence between Gleason and White House aides Harry S. Dent, H. R. Haldeman and Murray Chotiner as well as various campaign contributors; receipts for expenses incurred by his office, his periodic reports of allocations and amounts of money delivered to various political committees in the 34 states where the Administration sought victories, lists of campaign contributors, travel schedules, bank statements and cancelled checks. Two items found in the 1970 Campaign File subseries, The Presidential Advance Manual and the Advanceman's Checklist, appear unrelated to Gleason's files. The 1972 Campaign File subseries documents the activities of the White House counsel's office concerning legal issues related to the 1972 Presidential Campaign. This subseries consists of materials ranging from official publications and opinion papers to legal documents, newspaper clippings and photographs. The remaining material is related to legal interpretation of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, opinion papers on proposed legislation, litigation involving Political Action Committees, political contributors, the allocation of delegates to the Republican National Convention, electoral college reform, the tax status of political contributions, public disclosure of violations of specific federal laws and regulations issued by certain agencies pertaining to the extension of credit to political parties by regulated businesses. More than 250 photographs (most related to the 1971 demonstrations and ITT lobbyist Dita Beard) have been transferred to the audiovisual collection and replaced with electrostatic copies.

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