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Weicker submitted excerpts from White House logs showing that Nixon held 164 meetings with figures who are now part of the Watergate investigation during the period from June 20 (three days after the Watergate breakin) to July 31, 1972. During the same period, Nixon was logged as meeting Henry Kissinger, who was primarily responsible for foreign affairs, only ten times, for a total of little more than 2% hours...
...Explained a White House aide: "Politically, he had to do it. He truly thought that it was a bad bill, but he knew a veto would be misunderstood." Within a day, the committee subpoenaed tapes of 486 White House meetings and several hundred supporting documents concerning the Watergate breakin, contributions to Nixon's re-election drive, and campaign dirty tricks...
...able to control the quaver in his voice. The source of strain was his continuing Watergate woes, particularly his staffs inability to explain how a mysterious hum obliterated 18 minutes of his conversation with former Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman on June 20, 1972, three days after the Watergate breakin. Even close White House aides conceded that the gap on the tape had seriously damaged his efforts to restore public confidence. Said one assistant...
...there is yet a fresh potential impasse developing, of the very kind that set off the Saturday Night Massacre. Cox was fired by Nixon for his refusal to stop pursuing White House documents through the courts. The papers Cox wanted included White House reports and memorandums on the Watergate breakin, the ITT affair, campaign contributions, and operations by the White House plumbers; they were first asked for by Cox last July, five months ago. Soon after he took over from Cox, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski asked for the same documents and gave the White House ten days to supply them...
...good on his promise to follow any trail, "wherever that trail may lead," in his investigation. Cox and his 80-man legal staff brought criminal charges in 14 cases, and at the time of his ouster they were investigating literally dozens of criminal allegations extending far beyond the Watergate breakin. Indeed, it was the unfettered scope of Cox's inquiries that led Nixon to the angry decision that...