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...that Friday night, however, Richardson received a letter from Nixon linking the Stennis proposal to an order to Cox forbidding him to seek any more presidential documents in court. Richardson said he immediately called Nixon Adviser Bryce Harlow and advised him that he would publicly oppose any such restriction on Cox. Harlow reassured him in a way that led Richardson to think that the White House had retreated again. Within hours the President's statement was released, ordering Cox to desist, and so Richardson resigned. Sworn testimony by Cox as well as two written statements prepared that week...
...Oval Office was Counsellor Anne Armstrong. "He asked me to get on the phone and sound out opinion all around the country," she said. And he added: "It may not come to mind, but you tell them I want the names of qualified women as well as men." Counsellors Bryce Harlow and Mel Laird were summoned and given the same instructions, and soon messages to Republican Governors, national committeemen and women and other key party pros were winging from the White House...
...after arriving at the White House, he had met Nixon a dozen times but complained, "The President doesn't even know who I am." Once a corporation lawyer and lobbyist, as well as an assistant to former Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Colson had been hired by Presidential Counsellor Bryce Harlow as a political tactician. He proceeded to exploit his friendships with many labor leaders. Colson gained Nixon's appreciation with his advice on how the President could gain labor support for his re-election−advice that seems to have been successful...
Recently, however, Fischer has begun to detect signs of improvement. "Before Watergate, people in the White House frequently refused to make appointments and often neglected to return phone calls." Today, Fischer happily finds that such Nixon advisers as Alexander Haig, Melvin Laird and Bryce Harlow "are aware of the dangers of White House isolation in a way that Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman never understood...
...Laird, Bryce Harlow, the new White House political operative, and Al Haig, the chief of staff, are fighting this crushing weight of discouragement. So is Nixon in a way, but he remains a distracted-and now ill-man. ("How do we get him out of that cocoon?" worried one White House official last week...