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...what should be said. At one point, he comments: "Damn, I admire your strength. I tell you." And Nixon replies: "Well, that's what we are here for." At another, Petersen recounts how he has told Silbert: "Now dammit, Silbert, keep your eye on the mark?we are investigating Watergate???we are not investigating the whole damn realm of politics...
...sheepishly revealed another problem with the tapes: 18 minutes of a Nixon conversation with Chief of Staff Haldeman?the only part of the recording about Watergate???had been obliterated by a mysterious overriding hum. Again, Sirica ordered public hearings on this curious dwindling of the tapes evidence...
...would be tragic if Richard Nixon's considerable achievements as President were coupled in history with the sordid business of Watergate???as now seems likely. Yet for a while, at least, one of his most cherished words, "honor," will have a hollow ring...