Word: haldeman
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...Nixon's late-night trip to the Lincoln Memorial, where he unsuccessfully attempted to rap with young demonstrators. On page 66, we read that he did not go there for the purpose of talking with them. He was merely restless, and went out for air. But 39 pages later, Haldeman says: "A troubled Nixon, unable to sleep, went out for a post-midnight talk with the students...
...Jill St. John, one of Henry's beautiful dates, were put into file folders, then given captions by several of the staff as we rode together on Air Force One. and periodically sent to Henry by messenger. Miss St. John was, in fact, fully clothed in all the photos. Haldeman has written that the pictures were nudes and that I forged "presidential memos to Henry complete with Nixon's 'bizarre demands' for certain types of action." That's a spicy little newsworthy story, but it just isn't true...
Other subjects suffer from a factual parallax. And there is a recollection gap in Haldeman's account of my suggestion to Nixon that he listen to his tape of his March 21, 1973, meeting with John Dean to determine the dimension of his problem with Dean. Haldeman writes: "At that point I thought Ehrlichman didn't even know about the tapes." In fact, I did not know of the taping system then. But I had been told that Nixon had taped that one meeting with Dean. Haldeman had told...
...Haldeman was in a unique position to write a truly valuable book about Richard Nixon. I hope that The Ends of Power is not his last word...
...Scranton, Pa., where somebody evidently slipped Washington Post Reporter Nancy Collins parts of H.R. Haldeman's The Ends of Power fresh from the bindery, life was pretty much back to normal last week. The network cameras had departed. Law enforcement officials had received no complaints of wrongdoing, and did not intend to solicit any. Collins seemed to have had her fill of notoriety and, at the end of a week spent mostly in ducking interviews, said: "This is all very nice, but I've got stories...