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...John Mitchell. Petersen's gravel-voiced testimony before the Ervin committee last summer was considered by many to be a virtuoso display of candor and integrity. The transcripts, however, reveal that Petersen was callously manipulated by the President, who even went so far as to boast to Ehrlichman and Ziegler, "I've got Petersen on a short leash...
...transcript for that meeting on March 21, 1973, quotes the President as telling Dean: "The only thing we could do with him would be to parole him like the [unintelligible] situation." Again, the transcript for an April 17, 1973, meeting has Nixon saying to Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Ronald Ziegler: "Damn it, John Dean's highly sensitive information was on only one count. Believe me guys, we all know ?well?the [unintelligible] stuff regarding Bob." ("Bob" is Haldeman...
...South Carolina Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, who had it published in the Congressional Record. When presidential aides found Thurmond's entry had gone largely unnoticed, Communications Director Ken Clawson gave another detailed list of the alleged Dean contradictions to the press. At the same time, Press Secretary Ziegler declared: "Anyone who says the transcripts support John Dean hasn't worked at his reading or is looking at it with a totally partisan or biased...
...Ziegler] has an interesting point. Remember you had John Dean go to Camp David to write it up. He came down and said...
Summoning Ziegler to join the conversation, the President resumes his musings over what sort of public statement he could issue that would "knock true...