Word: buzhardt
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...down its ruling, it had urged Cox and Nixon's attorneys to try to reach some kind of agreement that would enable the critical evidence to go to the grand jury without forcing a legal showdown over separation of powers. Cox and the President's counsel, Fred Buzhardt, had met for many hours before advising the court that they could not find a mutually acceptable means to do this. Last week Richardson, at the behest of Nixon through his aide Alexander Haig, reopened talks with...
...early September, trying to find a way out of the mess, White House Counsel Fred Buzhardt, almost surely acting at Nixon's behest, had secretly initiated plea-bargaining sessions between Agnew's lawyers and Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his top aides. From the outset, the overriding goal of Agnew's lawyers had been to keep their client from going to jail. Held in the huge, red-carpeted room just outside Richardson's office, the bargaining sessions were long and heated, the men often shouting at each other as they maneuvered for a settlement. Even Richardson...
...Friday, Oct. 5, Agnew gave the word to reopen the negotiations to Judah Best, his Washington lawyer. Best immediately got in touch again with Fred Buzhardt, who was in Key Biscayne. Both men are fond of direct action and short, pungent phrases, and they understood each other completely. Buzhardt was definitely interested in talking. That night Best grabbed a plane to Florida and the two men met in a Miami motel in the predawn hours. Their approach was simple: let's get off dead center-the country requires that something be done. After their talk, Buzhardt called the Justice...
...first Presidential Counsel J. Fred Buzhardt offered Cox only written summaries of the tapes. They would contain brief snatches of direct quotes, but for the most part be limited to compilations by White House staffers of the substance of the conversations. Cox refused and, in turn, offered to excise profanity and other irrelevant material from any tape he listened to and decided should be sent to the grand jury...
...Next Buzhardt offered Cox transcripts with portions not relevant to the Watergate investigation deleted by the White House. Again Cox refused, insisting that he or, at the very least, someone not employed by the Chief Executive be permitted to double-check the transcripts against the tapes. Finally both sides told the court that no out-of-court settlement was possible...