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Unlike such White House Chiefs of Staff as Richard Nixon's H.R. Haldeman and Jimmy Carter's Hamilton Jordan, Baker will have scant contact with members of the Cabinet or other major Government agencies. That is what Meese will be doing, in addition to helping set overall policy. Baker's job will be restricted to directing the work of the assistants and aides to the President who actually work in the White House or in the neighboring Executive Office Building. Among Baker's duties will be supervising White House press and congressional relations. Like Meese...
Sherman Adams used to be called "the abominable no-man," because part of his job was to say no to the people that Eisenhower either could not or would not see. Bob Haldeman got very much the same reputation in the Nixon White House. But the plain fact is that a President needs an abominable no-man if his time is to be organized effectively so that he can get done the things that he has to get done - and especially il he is to have the uncluttered time in his schedule that he needs in order to think...
...discovery in July 1973; of injuries received in the crash of his plane near Anchorage. It was Bennett who revealed the existence of unexplained gaps in the tapes and later testified extensively about the still mysterious 18½-minute erasure of a conversation between Richard Nixon and Aide H.R. Haldeman about the Democratic Party headquarters break-in in June...
Gordon Strachan [assistant to H.R. Haldeman, Nixon's Chief of Staff] called me to the White House and told me that the original submissions from the electronic surveillance were unsatisfactory. I assumed he was speaking for Haldeman, so I repeated what McCord had told me of the technical problem and that we intended to correct it by going back in shortly...
...globe, they knew who Charles Colson was and what Woodward and Bernstein said he had done. They shook their heads as the president of the United States and his court tried to batter and beat the Constitution into submission. Everyday there was some new report out of Washington; Haldeman leaves the White House, Dean takes the stand, Nixon dodges the courts--the 18-minute gap heard round the world. Watergate captured imaginations in places they had never heard of Checkers or the Potomac and sent journalists scurrying to their wire machines to figure out what was going...