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- The Senate Watergate hearings got underway May 17 and were the major focus of Watergate developments during the summer. A parade of clean-cut, young, contrite former CRP and White House aides appeared, some to admit perjury during earlier investigations. They drew a picture of political sabotage that went far beyond Watergate, motivated by extreme loyalty to Nixon and by a belief that any tactics against people who had supported anti-Vietnam war demonstrations were acceptable. Perhaps the most important revelation of the committee hearings came as a result of closed-session questioning of Alexander P. Butterfield, that the President's offices were equipped with a special voice-activated system which tape recorded all conversations. The existence of the tapes entirely changed the Watergate case; presumably the evidence existed to prove or disprove Dean's allegations.
- This newsreel edition covers Senate hearings on the nomination of Henry Wallace as Secretary of Commerce and his support of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation; the need for more volunteers for WAC medical units; brief looks at several leaders of the allied forces and events in China; a major fire at the Norfolk Naval Yard; an amateur's invention of a device allowing his triplets to be bottle-fed simultaneously from a common source; and the professional invention of a new form of buzz-bomb, American style.
- Senator Chuck Schumer (D-New York) calls for the resignation of Labor Secretary Alex Acosta over the illegal "sweetheart deal" he brokered in 2008 with Jeffrey Epstein