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Touchdown Cheers. Nixon had already spent many hours reviewing the transcripts, which a staff of secretaries and lawyers, headed by White House Special Counsel J. Fred Buzhardt, had been painstakingly preparing since mid-March. After the secretaries transcribed each tape, it was gone over by Buzhardt and his assistants, who marked proposed deletions of irrelevancies, national security matters and profanity. But the final editor was Nixon. "As far as I know," Buzhardt said, "he read the entire package, and he had the final...
About three dozen passages were marked "Material not related to presidential actions deleted." Buzhardt explained: "These were sections that had no relation to what he did or knew. Other people came into the room. He was interrupted by a telephone call. Other topics were discussed...
...help prepare Nixon's response, White House Counsel J. Fred Buzhardt spent four weeks locating the tapes in question on six-hour reels stored in the Executive Office Building, isolating segments that corresponded to the subpoenaed conversations and transcribing them by hand. The tapes were reportedly sometimes almost inaudible, requiring hours of tedious replaying to decipher the conversations and identities of the speakers. Said one associate: "Fred's ears have fallen beneath his collar at this point." After studying each of the transcripts and consulting with St. Clair, Buzhardt turned them over to Nixon. Aides assumed that...
...snapped one of these leaders. "It doesn't go far enough," complained Scott. "You've got to get a line in there on your intent to cooperate with the committee." In partial explanation, Burch told the Senate Republican leaders that only one White House lawyer, J. Fred Buzhardt, and a secretary had been assigned to review the tapes. It took them a full day to transcribe just one confusing six-minute segment of conversation on one tape, Burch contended. Some of the Senators suggested that if that were true, more manpower should be assigned to the task...
Among these were documents obtained by Radford when he was Kissinger's secretary-stenographer on trips abroad; one of these trips may have been the secret visit to China in July 1971, five months before the snooping was discovered. Buzhardt did not implicate Moorer; that was done in a report to the White House in early 1972 by David Young, who had been transferred from Kissinger's staff to the plumbers' unit...