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...improperly offered the job to Federal Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr., who was then presiding over the trial of Daniel Ellsberg and refused to discuss it. Last week it became known that Nixon made the same unethical proposition at around the same time to Assistant Attorney General Henry E. Petersen, who was then in charge of the Watergate investigation...
According to records received by the House Judiciary Committee, Petersen told a Watergate grand jury that he was twice offered the job. He said that he shrugged it off as an "indiscreet thing to say" and "not one of my ambitions...
...find drew an admission from the White House last week that two typists had independently transcribed the same portion of a meeting between the President (P) and Assistant Attorney General Henry E. Petersen (HP) on April 16, 1973. The overlap slipped by, and the two versions appeared in tandem in the published transcript as separate conversations. The error was not caught sooner because the versions differ so markedly, underscoring the House Judiciary Committee's argument that only the tapes will suffice as evidence in its impeachment inquiry. Comparisons of parts of the two versions...
...HENRY PETERSEN: [Inaudible] question. [Inaudible] I told him . . . I would be willing to go [inaudible...
Still another key passage occurs during the April 17, 1973, meeting between Nixon and Henry Petersen, then heading the Watergate investigation...