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...pages of transcript in those great and lovingly displayed piles would make a stack of ordinary typing paper no more than 6 in. high! Like the rest of Nixon's defense against the many charges laid at his door, those piles of notebooks are 95% packaging and 5% content...
...dismaying gaps in knowledge. He is suspicious of his staff. His loyalty is minimal. His greatest concern is to create a record that will save him and his administration. The high dedication to grand principles that Americans have a right to expect from a President is missing from the transcript record...
...thrust of the 1,308 pages of the transcript is that the President was trying to save his own skin and would consider almost any option, however bizarre, if it would help him do that...
Moral Squalor. What appalled Congress was not so much the evidence of particular crimes as the moral squalor revealed in the transcripts. "This is the most nauseating thing I have ever read," declared a hitherto 100% Nixon loyalist, Louis Wyman of New Hampshire, who is not given to overstatement. Said Republican John Ashbrook, a conservative Representative from Ohio: "I listened to the President on television last Monday night, and for the first time in a year I believed him. Then I read the March 21 [1973] transcript, and it was incredible, unbelievable." Complained Massachusetts Republican Congressman Silvio Conte about...
Perhaps the most fateful blow of all was delivered by Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, who had earlier insisted that the tapes would exonerate Nixon. Last December he had been given only part of the March 21 transcript by White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig. According to his aides, Scott was "relieved" to be able finally to give his version of the story. Though he still called for "suspension of judgment" on the President's guilt or innocence in impeachment proceedings, he labeled the transcripts "deplorable, disgusting, shabby, immoral"?a description with which Rhodes said...