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...less than a whole description, because, as Haldeman says, Nixon is the Man of a Thousand Facets. Each of us was presented with the aspect Nixon instinctively deemed most advantageous at a given time. None of us can be free of Watergate's surprises until the last White House tape is played and we learn what Nixon was saying to others in our absence...
Based on what Nixon has said to me in the past and what Haldeman now implies, I expect to hear a 1971 tape some day in which Richard Nixon tells Charles Colson that Howard Hunt's plan to break into Dr. Fielding's office is approved...
...then being prosecuted for his part in the Fielding breakin. I urged Nixon to pardon Krogh, on the ground that the young man had been involved in an effort which I had heard Nixon expressly ratify. Nixon readily agreed that Krogh should be pardoned. Somewhere on a tape is that promise to me that Krogh would not be penalized. (That is, I believe, the one default I will never be able to forgive Richard Nixon...
Other subjects suffer from a factual parallax. And there is a recollection gap in Haldeman's account of my suggestion to Nixon that he listen to his tape of his March 21, 1973, meeting with John Dean to determine the dimension of his problem with Dean. Haldeman writes: "At that point I thought Ehrlichman didn't even know about the tapes." In fact, I did not know of the taping system then. But I had been told that Nixon had taped that one meeting with Dean. Haldeman had told...
...bodies: several photographer's assistants, a studio manager, a couple of art directors, two stylists, two hairdressers, gofers of both sexes, several admen in three-piece suits, the models, a makeup man, journalists. Everyone is gossiping, talking agency talk, watching the underbrush for poisonous serpents. The same Donna Summer tape has been wailing for three hours...