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...following are edited White House transcripts of the taped conversations between President Nixon and his former chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, on June 23, 1972. The transcripts cover three separate meetings...
...have today instructed my attorneys to make available to the House Judiciary Committee, and I am making public, the transcripts of three conversations with H.R. Haldeman on June 23, 1972. I have also turned over the tapes of these conversations to Judge Sirica, as part of the process of my compliance with the Supreme Court ruling...
...only witnesses to this sort of crime are the participants themselves. That the Watergate story produced serious consideration of impeachment at all is due largely to the incredible existence of the tapes; without them, it would be Nixon, Mitchell, Haldeman, et al. against a few hardly-impeccable types like John Dean...
Earlier, when Commissioner Thrower told then Treasury Secretary David Kennedy in January 1971 that he planned to resign, Thrower asked for a chance to protest to Nixon "about White House attitudes toward the IRS." Kennedy said he would arrange a meeting with the President, but according to Thrower, "Haldeman told him that the President did not like such conferences." Persisting, Thrower expressed his concern to Attorney General John Mitchell, warning that "any suggestion of the introduction of political influence into the IRS would be very damaging to him [Nixon] and his Administration, as well as to the revenue system...
...House to keep the wiretap data secret. On July 12, 1971, the President ordered Robert Mardian, then Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Internal Security Division, to get the data from William Sullivan at the FBI. According to FBI interviews of Mardian, he showed the materials to Kissinger, Haldeman and Alexander Haig, Kissinger's assistant. Then, he says, he delivered the files to the Oval Office. Mardian was asked: "Did you give the bag [containing the wiretap files] to Mr. Nixon, the President of the United States?" His reply: "I cannot answer that question...