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...Fred Buzhardt, Counsel to the President, glided through the door in a cream-colored suit. "He's not back yet?" Buzhardt asked St. Clair's secretary. He paced the gold carpet of the outer office, puffing gingerly on a cigarette. "They oughta call us and let us know if they want a rescue team...
...Buzhardt is an authority on rescue teams. He and Leonard Garment comprised Nixon's Watergate rescue team until they were rescued by University of Texas professor Charles Alan Wright, who was rescued by Boston trial lawyer James Draper St. Clair. But it is unlikely that St. Clair will need rescuing. Since he began working for Nixon last January 2, St. Clair has won the President much-needed time, using a strategy of delay, diversion and denial. Nixon might be impeached and convicted, but he will not be able to claim incompetence of counsel. In fact, some believe that...
...Buzhardt grew tired of waiting and left the office--it was once his office before mysterious gaps and "sinister forces" spoiled things--and walked down the hall to his new office, which once belonged to John Dean, the first White House lawyer who tried to rescue Nixon from Watergate...
...last June, when White House Special Counsel Fred Buzhardt prepared a report on the same tape, his summary included this passage: "Dean said Sirica was a hanging judge. The President said he liked hanging judges...
...addition to the words and passages marked unintelligible, nearly 150 expletives, adjectives or personal characterizations have been deleted from the transcripts. Again, most occur when the President is talking. Many of the excisions were made by Buzhardt, a lay Southern Baptist minister from South Carolina who neither smokes, drinks nor cusses. But while Buzhardt saw fit to delete every "goddam," "Jesus Christ" and other examples of presidential irreverence, he left intact a good many four, five, ten-and twelve-letter specimens of Anglo-Saxon earthiness. These fell before Nixon's own blue pencil. So too did some ethnic slurs used...