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...still buoyed by the evening's mood of reconciliation when Leonard Garment called at my White House office the next day, Saturday, April 14. What he told me shattered everything. Garment's title, Special Consultant to the President, was grand enough, but without a specific area of responsibility. His emergence into prominence was usually a signal that Nixon was in some distress and required a steadying hand; and in recent days Garment had spent an increasing amount of time with Nixon...
...deceptively casual manner Garment slumped onto a blue-covered couch that faced the White House front lawn. Never one to beat around the bush, he opened the conversation by asking: "Have you lost your mind...
Without waiting for a reply, Garment unfolded an astonishing and shattering tale: within a matter of days my evocation of national reconciliation would look like a plea for mercy and be submerged in a crisis that would make the turmoil over Viet Nam seem trivial. Nixon's enemies were about to be handed the weapon they had been seeking. In the tornado of suspicion about to overwhelm us, my appeal to idealism would sound vacuous if not cynical. The outcome of the recent election might well be reversed; there was likely to be a battle to the death...
...Watergate," according to Garment, was about to blow up; its ramifications went far beyond the break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex. There had been other break-ins sanctioned from the White House. A plan had existed to kidnap presumptive leaders of potential demonstrations against the Republican National Convention. Prostitutes were to be used to compromise and to blackmail delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Garment said the "sordid mess" had many dimensions. It could not have developed without the cooperation of the highest levels of the Administration. Garment thought that Special Counsel...
...male homicide victims. Central to that evidence are tiny synthetic textile fibers found on each of the twelve victims' corpses, which forensic experts say were very likely picked up from Williams' bedding, rugs and cars. Yet it is impossible to trace any fiber conclusively to a particular garment, and none potentially from the victims' clothing was found clinging to Williams' belongings...