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...fourth show Nixon discusses Agnew's resignation, unresolved questions about his personal finances and why he did not pardon his two top aides. Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. He also vents his anger at The Final Days, the bestselling account of his downfall by the two Watergate reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. He calls the duo "trashy people who wrote a trashy book," and pointedly notes that his wife suffered a stroke three days after she read...
...General Services Administration to determine who can have access to the papers and tapes and under what conditions. Settling that, after other court challenges, could take months. It is not likely that Nixon's Smoking Pistol Blues, with lyrics by John Ehrlichman and arrangement by Bob Haldeman, will soon reach the disc jockey hit lists...
...Even staff members are barred from the Justices' conferences. So there was considerable embarrassment inside the pillared courthouse after National Public Radio Correspondent Nina Totenberg, 33, revealed that the court had tentatively decided, 5 to 3, to reject Watergate cover-up-conviction petitions filed by John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman and John Mitchell, and that Chief Justice Warren Burger was lobbying members of the majority to hear their arguments (TIME, May 2). Attorneys for the defense suggested that the news leak, which Totenberg claims originated with "seven separate sources," may have prejudiced their clients' chances by freezing the Justices...
Frost moves ahead to the renowned tape of March 21, 1973, in which Nixon discusses with Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Dean the demands by the convicted Hunt for cash so the burglars could meet legal fees and support their families. If not satisfied, Hunt threatened, he would tell all of "the seamy things" he had done for the White House. As he always has, despite the contrary evidence, Nixon now tells Frost that "March 21 was the date in which the full import, the full impact of the cover-up came...
With the contract in his pocket, Frost still had no one to air the shows he would produce. CBS was shy of "checkbook journalism" after having been widely criticized for buying an interview with Nixon's former chief of staff, Haldeman. News executives at some networks were willing to put Nixon on the air, but only if their own journalistic stars could do the grilling. Undaunted, Frost got Syndicast, a New York-based independent TV marketing agency, to sell broadcasting rights to individual stations. He contracted with Pacific Video in Los Angeles to do the taping. Both were...