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...Kleindienst Denial...
...your May 14 story [on Watergate] you stated: "Angered, Hoover telephoned Kleindienst and threatened to reveal these embarrassing taps...
Nixon moved quickly to fill some of the gaping holes created in his staff. He named General Alexander M. Haig Jr., Army Vice Chief of Staff, to take over Haldeman's duties temporarily; Leonard Garment, a White House aide, to replace Dean; and Defense Secretary Elliot Richardson to succeed Kleindienst as Attorney General (see page 30). Former Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard was, said Ziegler, the most likely choice to fill Richardson's spot as Defense Secretary. By week's end no one had yet been assigned the full range of Ehrlichman's chores, but Kenneth R. Cole...
...Hoover became more irascible and seemed a political liability to the Administration, the Justice Department moved tentatively to pressure him out of office. Kleindienst, who was Deputy Attorney General in 1971, publicly suggested that Congress investigate the operation of the FBI. Angered, Hoover telephoned Kleindienst and threatened to reveal those embarrassing taps. No further move against Hoover was made by either Nixon, Mitchell or Kleindienst. Explained a Justice Department official: "Hoover used those wiretap authorizations to blackmail the Nixon Administration. As long as he had the papers [documenting the taps], they couldn...
...Among them: John Ehrlichman, John Dean, L. Patrick Gray, Richard Kleindienst, Charles Colson, G. Gordon Liddy, Gordon Strachan, general counsel to the USIA until he resigned under pressure, and Donald Segretti, a former Treasury Department counsel. Richard Nixon, also a lawyer, lost his personal attorney, Herbert Kalmbach, in last week's developments; Kalmbach immediately hired a lawyer...