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Perhaps it was not a bomb, but the pin was soon pulled on a fair-sized hand grenade. Next day, reading nervously from a slip of paper, Special Presidential Counsel Fred Buzhardt told Judge John J. Sirica in a Washington federal courtroom that 18 minutes of conversation on one of those tapes was impossible to hear. It had been mysteriously obscured by an unwavering "audible tone." The President, Buzhardt conceded under questioning, had been told of this before he spoke to the Governors...
...Kleizo, 50, who, immediately after the event, had told Eaton "the President slapped me." But he gave CBS a slightly different version two days afterward. What Nixon had actually asked, Kleizo recalled, was "something like, 'Are you the boy's grandmother or grandfather?' "-a more understandable slip of the tongue than the total confusion of gender reported originally. "Then," Kleizo continued, "he looked back and tapped me affectionately on the cheek, sort of like putting shaving lotion...
...Haldeman "were dedicated, fine public servants" who will "come out all right" when criminal investigations are complete. He assailed the injustice of a situation in which "they have already been convicted in the minds of millions of Americans by what happened before a Senate committee."In an embarrassing slip of the tongue, Nixon declared: "Both men ... are guilty until I have evidence that they are not guilty...
...Commander, smiling benignly, opens a slip of paper and then--in a flat, increasingly incredulous voice--reads: "Why was my kid brother killed by the police? The Commander is clearly non-plussed by the question, crumples the piece of paper into a ball, and says in an official, nearly inaudible reply, that he "has no knowledge of the incident," but that he is certain "there was no wrongdoing in that, or any other of that sort of case...
...occurrence since late September, could be a dramatic forecast of the future for other cities in the U.S., Europe and Japan. The Pacific Northwest is in the grip of a serious energy crisis, ironically brought on by the same mild weather that allowed the remainder of the nation to slip relatively easily through last winter's fuel-oil shortage. Because snow did not build up in normal amounts in the Cascades and Canadian Rockies, this spring's runoff into the hydroelectric reservoirs along the Columbia River was the lowest in 95 years. The problem was aggravated...