(Sunday, June 3, 1973; during the Watergate Scandal) — Former presidential counsel John W. Dean III has told Senate investigators and federal prosecutors that he discussed aspects of the Watergate cover-up with President Richard Nixon or in Nixon’s presence on at least 35 occasions between January and April of 1973, The Washington Post newspaper reported today.

Dean plans to testify under oath at the Senate’s Watergate hearings, regardless of whether he is granted full immunity from prosecution, and he will allege that President Nixon was deeply involved in the cover-up, the sources said.