Word: buzhardt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know where to go for direction," sighed a White House staff assistant. "We've got the President's daughter being contradicted by the press office, and then she contradicts them. Our new lawyer, Fred Buzhardt, issues a memorandum, which is immediately disavowed by the press secretary...
Indeed, the effort backfired, which is perhaps why the White House quickly disavowed it and said that it was merely Lawyer Buzhardt's friendly personal contribution to the proceedings...
...political espionage at Democratic National Headquarters and then, to conceal that fact, they hindered the investigation by the FBI, compromised the CIA, ordered evidence shredded, and arranged for payoffs and offers of Executive clemency to the arrested burglars to ensure their silence. Creating a constitutional crisis almost alone, the Buzhardt statement in effect charged, Dean and Mitchell kept the truth of all that concealed for some nine months from such shrewd White House officials as H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Charles W. Colson?and the President...
While White House records and future witnesses before Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee may yet impugn Dean's story in a convincing way, it emerged from last week's test by fire as more credible than either Buzhardt's conspiracy theory or the President's less accusatory brief of last May 22. Instead of depicting a duped President and innocent top-level aides. Dean's damning version held that the lawless efforts to conceal the political implications of Watergate were an automatic and widespread White House response intended to protect the President's re-election prospects?and Nixon...
...Press Secretary Warren, who has taken over many of Ziegler's customary duties while Ziegler spends his time working with the President on unspecified matters, reported that Nixon had not so much as talked on the telephone with his counsels in charge of the Watergate problem, J. Fred Buzhardt and Leonard Garment. That doubtless contributed to the confusion over the nature and authorization of Buzhardt's shrill statement sent to the Ervin committee...