does anyone know the exact date Howrd Baker famously asked

[gopiscrap]

"What did the president know, and when did he know it?"?

[unblock]

1. june 29, 1973:

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Decoder/2014/0626/Howard-Baker-the-real-story-of-his-famous-Watergate-question


can't cut and paste for some reason.

interestingly, the article claims that baker thought he was doing a favor to nixon asking this question, expecting that dean would take the opportunity to claim that nixon had nothing to do with earlier actions, etc.

instead, dean instead fessed up and implicated nixon.

[WhiteTara]

4. i was watching at that very moment.

It was so anticlimactic. Just stated right then and there that there had been a crime and a cover up.

[gopiscrap]

2. thank you

if there isn't a special prosecutor by then, we should have massive marches and protests to agitate for one on that date. Call it Howard Baker Day

[DefenseLawyer]

3. Remember that Baker, a Republican, asked that question trying to help Nixon.

Baker thought the answer was going to be that the President didn't know until well after the fact so he could not have ordered the cover up. As a criminal defense attorney I can only say, never ask a question for which you don't already know the answer.

[jaysunb]

5. +1 n/t