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...National Archives plans to release excerpts from Richard Nixon's far more infamous White House taping system. The recordings, which capture Nixon conferring with chief White House aides John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman and Charles Colson, were not introduced as evidence in any Watergate trials and have remained sealed in a Virginia warehouse. But the recordings apparently contain some spicy political discussions. The former President and his assistants have the right to appeal to a special review board with any objections about the unsealing of the tapes, now scheduled for June...
NIXON (PBS, Oct. 15, 8 p.m. on most stations). A rich selection of old news clips, plus fresh comments from such former aides as John Ehrlichman and Charles Colson, make this three-hour American Experience documentary on the ex-President's life worth an evening...
...following Nixon's re-election in 1972, when Watergate was a faint underground rumble. Nixon, in the flush of victory, was going to do wonders, mainly by firing or demoting almost everyone in sight -- but not George Bush. "He'd do anything for the cause," Nixon privately told John Ehrlichman. The qualification for service in the second term was spelled out with ruthless clarity: "Not brains, loyalty...
Haig had left the White House and was back at the Pentagon when the Watergate scandal broke. Nixon appointed him White House chief of staff after John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman resigned. Unswervingly loyal to Nixon, Haig nevertheless established a good relationship with Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. Many credit Haig with running the country while Nixon fought impeachment...
...1970s there was widespread resentment as Watergate culprits cashed in with books -- among them, John Dean's Blind Ambition, Charles Colson's Born Again and John Ehrlichman's The Company. By the time Richard Nixon's book came along, in 1978, a Committee to Boycott Nixon's Memoirs had been born. Its slogan, "Don't buy books from crooks," failed to work; the Nixon tome earned him $2.2 million, and the hardback became a best seller. But the phrase caught the spirit of the only official ethical stand that Americans have ventured on sensational exploitations. In some 30 states...