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Ehrlichman depicts Nixon as deeply resenting all the attention Kissinger was getting in the press. One reason for installing his secret recording system, Ehrlichman quotes Chief of Staff H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman as telling him, was to prove to future historians that Nixon, not Kissinger, had conceived and directed his Administration's foreign policy initiatives...
...lower in history's regard. He may have trouble improving his rating, however, if new tidbits keep coming from the famous tapes. For unreconstructed Nixon-haters it must have seemed like old times when the New York Times recently ran a front-page story quoting Nixon and H.R. Haldeman as planning to use "thugs" from the Teamsters Union to beat up on antiwar demonstrators. There was the further bonus in the transcript of a flagrantly anti-Semitic innuendo from Nixon...
...actually conscripted Teamsters to bloody the heads of demonstrators. But the tape confirms for the first time that Nixon knew about the political sabotage campaign conducted by White House Henchman Donald Segretti 18 months before the hotly contested 1972 election, a charge Nixon has repeatedly denied. As Haldeman tells his boss: "This kind of guy can really get out and tear things up." Segretti was imprisoned in 1973 for conspiracy and distributing false campaign material...
...Haldeman also tells the President of plans to use "hardhats and Legionnaires" against antiwar demonstrators and describes how White House Operative Charles Colson surreptitiously sent one group of protesters a supply of oranges under the name of then Democratic Presidential Front Runner Edmund Muskie. The episode is thought by some to have been the beginning of a White House campaign of innuendo and slander against the former Maine Senator...
Nixon declines to comment about the new revelations. He is protected from fur ther prosecution for any crimes committed during his presidency by President Ford's full pardon in 1974. Haldeman, now living in California, said, "I really don't care what's on the tapes. They're ten years old." But the former President's lawyers, in their continuing effort to keep the 4,000 hours of unreleased Nixon tapes private, may raise a ruckus over how the newly disclosed transcript found its way into the Times. Hersh, who is writing a book about...