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...White House official who appears to have been a generous source for The Final Days is former Counsel J. Fred Buzhardt, who emerges as a hero in the book after criticism elsewhere for hangdog loyalty long after he was aware of Nixon's involvement...
...tape gaps indeed came from Deep Throat -as he has written it did-then that narrows the circle further. Awareness of the erasures was limited at first to Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, Stephen Bull, Haig-and three men then serving as Nixon's lawyers: Samuel Powers, Garment and Buzhardt. Though he was long gone from the White House, Charles Colson is also known to have learned of the tape gaps soon after their discovery by Buzhardt...
...real story in The Final Days--the one that no one seems to have noticed or care much about--is that Alexander Haig, the general Nixon brought into the White House after Haldeman and Erlichman "resigned," and Fred Buzhardt, one of Nixon's lawyers, (two men nobody ever voted for), actually ran the White House for about six months in 1974. They--along with lawyer James St. Clair, speechwriter Pat Buchanan, and press hack Ron Ziegler--were the men who became the "palace guard" and executed the Nixon defense, such as it was. They were also responsible, Woodward and Bernstein...
...this proved impossible, we left out any material we could not confirm." In effect, they have already made all the judgment about who was telling the truth and have thrown out whatever they couldn't get two people to tell them. I can imagine the following scenario: Fred Buzhardt, an insider's insider, hears that W&B are on the case. He remembers the job they did in All the President's Men and so figures they are bound to ferret out most of the facts. Then, remembering one or two incidents he would like to downplay and remembering what...
...former Nixon associate willing to be quoted makes a probably valid general complaint. J. Fred Buzhardt, Nixon's embattled former counsel and clearly a key source for the book, protests against "psychojournalism." He says: "They write about my thought processes. I don't know how anybody can derive that, for honestly I can't myself." Eisenhower agrees: "Distortion creeps in when they are attributing chains of thought to participants. Didn't Mr. Nixon look horrible that night of Aug. 2? That was not what was running through my mind. He didn't look good...