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...does obtain the tapes, the Ervin committee could be stymied in its desire to see them speedily, since Cox apparently, if he would use them publicly at all, would do so only in the trials of indicted former Nixon aides. Such trials could be months away. If the President will not voluntarily give the tapes to Ervin, the committee will undoubtedly try to subpoena them. If that is resisted by the White House, it could take months for the committee to fight the issue through all the courts...
Thus a nervous but precise and wholly cooperative Butterfield became the Ervin committee's first mystery witness. He arrived without an attorney, not having had time even to obtain counsel to accompany him. Speaking in understated, undramatic terms, he told a sensational story of how Nixon had made it a practice to bug all presidential conversations. At no time, so far as he knew, Butterfield said, did Nixon seek to cut off the system or were his visitors or callers informed that their words were being taped...
Bhutto said that he would not use the authority immediately, but it obviously paves the way for a compromise by the subcontinent's three antagonists. Bangladesh wants recognition in order to obtain United Nations membership this fall. Pakistan is anxious for the repatriation of its 90,000 prisoners of war still in India-and India is almost as anxious to get rid of them...
...complained that Republican appointees at IRS "lack guts and effort" and "appear afraid and unwilling to do anything that could be politically helpful." As a result, the document said, the White House staff was unable to crack down on tax-exempt foundations that "feed left-wing political causes," to obtain information from the IRS "regarding our political enemies," to "stimulate audits of persons who should be audited" or to place Nixon supporters in the IRS bureaucracy. A third memo, from Security Specialist Tom Charles Huston to Haldeman, suggested IRS audits to turn up information about "leftist organizations taking advantage...
Kelley admits that his department has used such surveillance methods as observing protest demonstrations, recording the automobile licenses of people who attend activist meetings, and maintaining dossiers on militants -whether or not they were suspected of crimes. On occasion, his men have posed as newsmen to obtain demonstrators' names; but he said it was done without his approval, and he ordered the practice stopped. He wins good marks from Arthur A. Benson II, a local lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, for being "amenable to suggestions and not irritated by criticism...