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Frost begins gently, asking Nixon to characterize his role in Watergate. Assured but wary, Nixon defers. He says he would rather answer Frost's specific questions. They follow rapidly, as Frost turns chilly. What did Nixon really say to his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, during the notorious 18??-minute gap on an Oval Office tape recording made on the morning of June 20, 1972? That was only three days after the Watergate burglary, and the vacationing Nixon had just returned to Washington...
...constitutional consultant, Charles Alan Wright, assured Judge Sirica, "This President does not defy the law. He will comply in full with the orders of this court." To Wright's embarrassment, two of the nine subpoenaed tapes then turned out to be "non-existent" and a third contained the celebrated 18??-minute buzz-filled erasure...
...even the work of the original Watergate grand jury is complete. Sirica ordered the understandably weary jurors to be prepared to return within two weeks. One pending bit of unfinished business could be serious indeed for Nixon. The FBI and Jaworski's staff have been investigating the 18??-minute erasure on one presidential tape recording, as well as the claimed nonexistence of two other tapes and unexplained gaps in several more...
Whenever the tanks stopped, the interrogations began?surely some of history's most curious confrontations between conqueror and conquered. Hounded by questions, many of the Russians?some of whom were youths no older than 18???looked nervous and stared blankly into the distance to avoid further embarrassment. A few told crowds in the street that they were in Czechoslovakia to protect the people from "counterrevolution" or the "re actionaries" in West Germany. But many had little notion of their mission and were apologetic. "We are only following orders," a youthful paratrooper said to an irate questioner in Prague. "We have...
...records for cold were broken in New England where temperatures as low as ?56° were reported. In Boston it went to ?18??, in Manhattan to ?14°, in Philadelphia to ?11°. Florida had snow and hail (which killed two cows). Dwellers on islands off the North Atlantic coast were icebound and had to be fed by airplane. Temperatures recorded included ?4° at Lynchburg, Va., ?6° at Washington, ?8° at Richmond, ?8° at Atlantic City, ?26° at Buffalo, ?12° at Toledo, ?34° at Sault Ste. Marie, ?10° at Duluth...