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This turnover of tapes, White House aides revealed, meant that the earlier offer to provide summaries of presidential tapes through Stennis to the Senate Watergate committee was dead. Senator Sam Ervin, who had come to realize that he had been lured into accepting the plan by a presidential plea to end the controversy because of the Middle East crisis, had been trying to get out of the plan and was not displeased...
...Some of Ervin's associates contended that the committee's vice chairman, Senator Howard Baker, had helped mislead...
...chairman. Baker discussed the plan with Nixon's aides for an hour before Ervin agreed to it under presidential pressure, and Baker clearly had a better understanding of its larger impact on Cox and the criminal cases. Rums Edmisten, deputy counsel to the Ervin committee, felt that the White House had taken advantage of Ervin's "good faith." Said Edmisten: "He's always operated that way; he assumes everyone else does...
...tossed questions on the Middle East, even on the oil crisis, which he handled confidently at time-consuming length. On a pointed question about the tapes, Nixon insisted that Cox had to be fired because he alone opposed the Stennis compromise, while Nixon, the Attorney General, Senators Ervin and Baker had approved it?wholly ignoring the fact that both Richardson and Ervin had expressed sharp reservations about the plan in the form that was so suddenly announced by Nixon...
...this second version is the one Nixon is going to stick with, the White House is going to have a hard time explaining how Nixon could offer to give Archibald Cox '34 and Sam Ervin summaries of the tapes without telling them that two of the tapes didn't exist...