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Acting to maintain the President's momentum, his aides lashed out at Chairman Peter Rodino and his committee. Patrick Buchanan, Nixon's special consultant and once a wily practitioner of the anonymous news leak, assailed the "nameless, faceless character assassins on the House Judiciary Committee." Another adroit news manipulator, White House Communications Director Ken Clawson, charged that leaks from the committee were part of "a purposeful effort to bring down the President with smoke-filled-room operations by a clique of Nixon-hating partisans." Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren joined the chorus, deploring "prejudicial and one-sided information...
Presidential Aide Patrick J. Buchanan last week charged that both the grand jury and the Watergate prosecutors had acted out of political bias against Nixon rather than on the evidence. He claimed, for example, that when Presidential Aide Dwight Chapin was found guilty of perjury on April 5, "members of the prosecution staff, gathered in court, cheered and embraced." Buchanan was not present when the jury announced its verdict; there was, in fact, no such unprofessional demonstration...
...White House men walked across Lafayette Park to St. John's Church, the small, stately structure that has welcomed Presidents and their associates since the time of James Madison. Pat Buchanan, a Nixon speechwriter, his wife, and Richard Moore, presidential friend and assistant, were there. So was former Treasury Secretary George Shultz...
...wants it, which he seems to." Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania added: "I think our nation is strong enough to withstand the functioning of its own Constitution." The Republican leaders doubtless also had in mind the possibility that Nixon could be acquitted. White House Speechwriter Patrick Buchanan warned that if Republicans forced Nixon out of office and he were later found to be innocent of wrongdoing, it "would be close to fatal for the Republican Party...
...myth that the President is too busy to read newspapers or watch television. An adjunct to the myth is that Nixon gets the news better and straighter from the 20-to 50-page press summary delivered to him before 8 a.m. each day by White House Special Consultant Patrick Buchanan. The transcripts should thoroughly dispel the myth. In his Feb. 28 meeting with Dean, the President discusses in impressive detail what the newspapers are saying about the woes of Campaign Finance Chairman Maurice Stans...