Word: buzhardt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Former Presidential Counsel J. Fred Buzhardt, 50, faces possible indictment for his role in preparing the heavily edited tape transcripts released by Richard Nixon last April 30. There were serious discrepancies between the edited transcripts and the tapes that were eventually released. Buzhardt has insisted that he was solely responsible for editing the transcripts...
...Republican Party, which faces a potential disaster next month (see cover story page 26). In a step that furthered the transition to a Ford White House, he accepted the resignations of two of Nixon's most brass-knuckled aides, Speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan and Lawyer J. Fred Buzhardt. On three evenings he traveled to G.O.P. fund-raising dinners to cheer up dispirited party members and warn that "catastrophic defeat" of Republicans in November might destroy the nation's two-party system and result in a vetoproof Congress...
When he began his last White House tour of duty, he found almost total paralysis in the wake of the Haldeman-Ehrlichman firing. He got the machinery going again. He found that Nixon had no Watergate counsel. Haig recruited Fred Buzhardt from the Pentagon and urged Nixon to lay out all of the Watergate case. When Nixon made his May 22 statement, Haig thought that was the whole story. How could he have continued to believe as one by one Nixon's defenses were shown to be false, incomplete? That is the part that Haig cannot explain away. Maybe...
Ford had been advised that Nixon simply could not stand the suspense of worrying about a potential indictment or the strain of a trial if one were eventually held. Both current Ford Aide Alexander Haig and former Nixon Counsel J. Fred Buzhardt had expressed their concern to Ford about Nixon's emotional problems, which were beginning to manifest themselves in physical ailments. Ford, whether accurately or not, came to believe that Nixon was seriously ill, deeply depressed and might even die unless he was soon relieved of some of his legal worries. Nixon's doctors did confirm a new blood...
Becker was also assigned to complete the negotiations between the White House and Nixon for an agreement granting the Watergate prosecutors?and presumably other lawyers?the right to examine his tapes and presidential papers for use in future cases. White House Counsel Fred Buzhardt had insisted that these records belong to Nixon and proposed shipping them forthwith to San Clemente; that prompted Ford to fire Buzhardt...