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...legal showdown over separation of powers. Cox and the President's counsel, Fred Buzhardt, had met for many hours before advising the court that they could not find a mutually acceptable means to do this. Last week Richardson, at the behest of Nixon through his aide Alexander Haig, reopened talks with...
Cooperative Attitude. Earlier Stennis had been telephoned by Presidential Counsel Buzhardt, who had said that he and Haig would like to come to the Senator's office to see him. Stennis gave them 20 minutes, in which they outlined Nixon's plan. "My attitude," Stennis explained later, was "one of cooperation." Stennis said that he would never personally verify "the authenticity" of the tapes, however; if he found any signs of tampering he would have to "seek some technical advice...
...keeping his cool in his suburban Virginia home with a 20-minute swim. He had just climbed out of the pool, the dinner steaks were on the burner, when the telephone rang. It was the President. Puckishly, almost as though he were a secretary, he said: "Jerry, Al Haig has a message for you." The White House chief of staff came on the line and said: "I've got good news for you. The President wants you to be Vice President." Haig suggested that Ford might want to get his wife Betty on the line to hear the good...
Upon returning to the Oval Office in Washington at 8:30, he told only Haig and Press Secretary Ron Ziegler of his decision and outlined his plan of action. Loving surprises the way most politicians love parades, he would unveil his nominee with the same kind of full dress performance in the East Room that he had played effectively when he sprung the nomination of Warren Burger as his Chief Justice...
...other night Paul got a call from a man. "I am General Haig [the President's White House staff chief]," the voice said. "I would like a table for four and send the bill to the White House." Paul knows his people and their voices, and that is not the way things are done. He politely informed the impostor that he had no tables left, and the incident was quietly buried in Paul's memory, a rich lode of human behavior at the epicenter. Paul says, "I don't hear anything, I don't see anything...