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...Watergate case itself, the big mystery is still how 18 minutes of the White House tape recording of Nixon's conversation with former Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman on June 20, 1972 -three days after the Watergate break-in-was erased. White House aides have tried to pin the blame on Secretary Rose Mary Woods, who admits to the possibility of having accidentally erased "four to five minutes" of the tape by mistakenly pressing the "record" button, evidently while keeping her foot on the pedal that advanced the tape. Presidential Chief Counsel J. Fred Buzhardt buttressed the theory, testifying...
...lines of tension creased his face, and he seemed barely able to control the quaver in his voice. The source of strain was his continuing Watergate woes, particularly his staffs inability to explain how a mysterious hum obliterated 18 minutes of his conversation with former Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman on June 20, 1972, three days after the Watergate breakin. Even close White House aides conceded that the gap on the tape had seriously damaged his efforts to restore public confidence. Said one assistant...
...testimony, Lawrence Higby disclosed that Haldeman still wielded a shadowy influence over some White House deliberations seven months after he was forced to resign. Higby said that Haldeman knew almost as soon as the President did-that is, on Nov. 15-that 18 minutes of the tape had been obliterated. Moreover, Higby testified that later that day Haldeman ordered him by phone to retrieve his handwritten notes on the meeting. Higby also said that four other sets of notes kept by Haldeman, including one subpoenaed by the Watergate prosecutors, were missing from the vault where they had been kept...
Warren conceded that both Nixon and Ziegler occasionally talked with Haldeman, who now Lives in Los Angeles, about presidential affairs. In court, however, Haig declared: "Haldeman does not influence what we do in the White House...
CONSIDER, EVEN BRIEFLY, the courses Nixon might teach. With his proven ability to judge people guilty before their trials--Charles Manson, John Erlichman, and Bob Haldeman, for example--Nixon would be a sure bet to add a new dimension to Harvard's offerings in jurisprudence. Or consider taking a course on "Meaning and Perception" from a man who divides assertions about objective reality into two categories: operative and inoperative...