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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Suggestions ranged, as one staff member later described it, from "mea culpas to a two-fisted hard-line approach." But the consensus was that the speech should be "moderate, dignified, strong in adherence to principle and hopefully presidential in character." Nixon's legal advisers, J. Fred Buzhardt, Leonard Garment and Charles Alan Wright, went to work on a statement that was to be released simultaneously with the TV speech. The statement proved to be a slightly more detailed version of the speech but, unlike the President's May 22 statement on Watergate, contained few facts or legal arguments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Scrambling to Break Clear of Watergate | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

Nevertheless, Agnew has apparently realized the gravity of the Government's case against him. TIME has learned that the Vice President has sought the help of Nixon's Wa tergate defense team (Lawyers J. Fred Buzhardt, Leonard Garment and Charles Alan Wright) in preparing a constitutional defense that would prevent his having to go on trial any time soon. The White House lawyers were specifically asked to ex plore the possibility that the Vice President might adopt Nix on's own argument that a President (or Vice President) cannot be criminally prosecuted until after he has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: Heading Toward an Indictment? | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

...even the other Senators on the committee be immediately informed. Vice Chairman Baker learned of it Sunday morning only when Butterfield, seeking advice, asked to meet with him. Baker told Butterfield that he would have to testify publicly, but should inform White House Counsels Leonard Garment and J. Fred Buzhardt that he intended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: The Battle for Nixon's Tapes | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

...Buzhardt's claim that the Johnson Administration had engaged in a similar practice was met with heated denials by some former L.B.J. aides, but it nevertheless seemed generally accurate. Some 500 transcripts of telephone conversations that Lyndon Johnson had selectively and apparently secretly re corded are in the archives of the John son Library in Austin, Texas. He was able to push buttons to activate Dictaphones wired to his telephones in both the Oval Office and his White House sleeping quarters. Installed by Army communications experts rather than the Secret Service, the recording equipment was also available in the Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: The Battle for Nixon's Tapes | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

...with his back to the wall, Mr. Nixon has once again seen fit to sling a mudball. This time it is aimed at a man who is barely cold in his grave, President Lyndon Johnson. In a memo from J. Fred Buzhardt, it was alleged that LBJ was the slimy creature who initiated the policy of presidential phone taps...

Author: By Paul T. Shoemaker, | Title: The Watergate Hearings: A Bird's Eye View | 7/24/1973 | See Source »

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