Word: buzhardt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watergate controversy entered the realm of existentialism this week when J. Fred Buzhardt, a special counsel to President Nixon, told Judge John J. Sirica that two of the tapes subpeonaed by the court never existed...
...Buzhardt's surprise announcement has the whole country asking, "What is reality...
...Buzhardt originally claimed that an April 15 conversation between Nixon and John W. Dean III was not recorded due to a "rare malfunction" in the White House recording system. They story was changed the day after the first announcement when Buzhardt said that the recording system, which goes unattended on weekends, ran out of tape just before Nixon had his Sunday evening talk with Dean...
Cooperative Attitude. Earlier Stennis had been telephoned by Presidential Counsel Buzhardt, who had said that he and Haig would like to come to the Senator's office to see him. Stennis gave them 20 minutes, in which they outlined Nixon's plan. "My attitude," Stennis explained later, was "one of cooperation." Stennis said that he would never personally verify "the authenticity" of the tapes, however; if he found any signs of tampering he would have to "seek some technical advice...
...negotiations with Cox continued, Stennis was consulted three more times by Haig and Buzhardt. But he later said that he had not been told that Cox was objecting to the entire plan; he knew only that Cox had not yet accepted it. Stennis insisted that he would not agree either unless the Senate Watergate committee's Ervin and Baker also approved. Since the Ervin committee's suit for the tapes had been thrown out of court by Sirica (on the narrow ground that the committee had not demonstrated a legal standing to bring the suit), Stennis thought...