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Brandt's reputation for personal integrity is sufficiently strong that he might have been able to weather the scandal by blaming aides who had hired Guillaume despite the warnings of German security police. But that would not have been Willy's way. In a two-paragraph handwritten letter of resignation to President Gustav Heinemann, Brandt declared: "I accept the political responsibility for negligence in connection with the Guillaume espionage affair...
Solzhenitsyn retorted in his detailed statement that "for 29 years Vitkevich did not ever reproach me for my behavior at the investigation-but how convenient it is now to have him join the general chorus." The reliability of Vitkevich's belated accusations appeared questionable. Experts noted that handwritten notations were never permitted on the record of a prisoner's interrogations. Moreover, Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev ordered the destruction of the dossiers of all rehabilitated prisoners in the early 1950s...
...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...
...memo sent from Young and Krogh to Ehrlichman before the burglary indicated that Ehrlichman had approved "a covert operation ... to examine all the medical files still held by Ellsberg's psychoanalyst." Ehrlichman's handwritten caution: "If done under your assurance that it is not traceable." Ehrlichman argued that he had not had burglary in mind. "Covert" meant only that he did not want the operation identified with the White House. He blandly suggested that there were all kinds of ways of handling the job that were routine, such as getting another doctor, a nurse or nurse...
...administration of justice," observes one of the judges. "If it's something that won't reoccur for 100 years or so, we'll probably pass it up." To some Justices, jailhouse petitions for habeas corpus are standard throwaways. Douglas, however, likes to read as many handwritten appeals as possible; he considers it a personal coup if he can force his brother judges to accept such a petition...