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...denouement was jarring in its swift resolution and therefore a bit surreal. Nearly 800 days after the Watergate breakin, 289 days after the Saturday Night Massacre, 97 days after the White House transcripts were released, twelve days after the Supreme Court voted, 8 to 0, that the President must surrender 64 more tapes, five days after the House Judiciary Committee voted out articles of impeachment, Nixon's defenses finally vanished. On Monday he issued the June 23, 1972 transcript that amounted to a confession to obstruction of justice and to lying to the American people and his own defense counsel...
Asked by Assistant Special Prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste on Tuesday whether any tape segments were missing, St. Clair told Sirica: "Not to my knowledge, Your Honor." Then Ben-Veniste pointed out that a White House transcript of the President's April 17, 1973, meeting with Ehrlichman and Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman ended at 4:35 p.m. while St. Clair had told the court that the reel of tape was "removed full" at 4:20 p.m. After checking, St. Clair reported to Sirica that five minutes and twelve seconds of the 45-minute conversation had not been recorded because...
According to a transcript of the meeting, Connally urged Nixon to raise the parity to 85%. He noted that during the 1972 election, "you're going to have to be strong in rural America." He pointed out that the cooperatives were "amassing an enormous amount of money that they're going to put into political activities, very frankly." He argued persuasively that the Democratic Congress was going to take all the credit by giving the dairymen 85% of parity in a bill that the President could not possibly veto. "If you do," said Connally, "you've cost yourself the money?...
...transcript of a presidential tape, not previously disclosed, casts doubt on Nixon's claim that the Pentagon papers case was a matter of national security. The President and John Dean talked on July 24, 1971, about a New York Times article that contained secret material
Nixon, Ehrlichman said, would get the credit if Mitchell would only confess his guilt to the U.S. Attorney. But Mitchell proved to be too shrewd to say anything that would incriminate himself. According to a transcript of his conversation, he denied his own guilt and accused the White House of responsibility. "Well let me tell you where I stand," he told Ehrlichman. "Uh, there is no way that I'm going to do anything except staying where I am because I'm too far, uh, far out. Uh, the fact of the matter is that...