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...with Sam Dash's plea for the tapes. In this case, he appeared to be more favorably disposed toward the White House. He granted the large staff of White House lawyers (ten are now working full time on the Watergate defense) until Sept. 24 to respond to the Ervin committee's demand for the tapes. He set no date for oral arguments after that, and he rejected Dash's claim that the delay would amount to "ruling the Senate out of court." Sirica said that he would "not be pushed into a half-baked job" and that...
Moreover, TIME has learned that Steve Bull, a presidential aide, has told Ervin committee investigators that he delivered eight or ten tapes of Watergate conversations to the President on June 4. Bull loaded the tapes onto at least five playback machines. He said that he carried the machines into the President's office in the Executive Office Building, set them up for the President and then left. According to Bull, Nixon kept the tapes for twelve hours, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and when Bull retrieved them all of the tapes had been fully unwound. The significance...
Each of the hundreds of reels of tape is labeled by date. The ones that Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and the Ervin committee are so vigorously seeking are not kept apart from the rest. Most of the tapes have never been replayed, so far as anyone knows, although former White House Aide Alexander Butterfield told the Ervin committee that he occasionally borrowed some of the tapes and sampled them to make sure the system was operating properly. In addition, both the President and former White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman have said that they have listened to some...
...unproductive and could even backfire. The poll discloses that 57% of the people questioned reject Nixon's suggestion that the Watergate investigation is an attempt by some politicians and members of the press to "get the President" (35% agree and 8% are unsure). White House criticism of the Ervin committee runs up against the finding that two-thirds of the people regard that committee as having functioned in a "fair and open-minded" manner. Almost two-thirds of those polled criticize Nixon's attempt to withhold the tapes of his Watergate-related conversations from the committee...
...would seem to be a paradox, however, in the fact that many also disbelieve John Dean, the President's chief accuser and the man whose testimony conflicts sharply with that of the other aides. Yet Dean's credibility is somewhat higher than that of the other major Ervin committee witnesses...