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39.
U.S. v. Garcia
(9th Circuit), 427 F. 2d 658 (1970);
U.S. v. Sweig
(2nd Circuit), 454 F. 2d 181 (1972); Samuel Dash,
Chief Counsel
(New York, 1976), 26–30;
NYT
, October 7, 1973; Joseph Rauh, Book Review,
The New Republic
, May 26, 1979, 36–38; Higgins, “The Judge Who Tried Harder,” 90, 94; TT, Telephone Conversation, Kleindienst and Ehrlichman, March 28, 1973, HJC,
Statement of Information
, 4 (Part I): 406–08.

40.
TT, the President and Haldeman, March 22, 1973 (9:11
A.M.
–10:35
A.M.
),
U.S. v. M
, NA; Nixon,
Memoirs
, 2:312–24; Sirica,
To Set the Record Straight
, 119.

41.
Nixon,
Memoirs
, 2:328, 330, 332.

42.
TT, the President, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean, and Mitchell, March 22, 1973 (1:57
P.M.
–3:43
P.M.
),
U.S. v. M
, NA; Nixon,
Memoirs
, 2:326.

43.
Haldeman Notes, January 12, 1973, Haldeman Papers, Box 47, NP; Ehrlichman,
Witness to Power
, 368.

XI: “WE HAVE A CANCER WITHIN, CLOSE TO THE PRESIDENCY.” COVERING UP THE COVER-UP, JANUARY–MARCH 1973

1.
John Dean to Files, March 5, 1973, SSC,
Hearings
, 3:1251; Moore Interview, December 5, 1987; John Dean,
Blind Ambition
(New York, 1976), 195–96; TT, the President, Dean, and Haldeman, March 21, 1973 (10:12
A.M.
–11:55
A.M.
),
U.S. v. M
, NA.

2.
Dean,
Blind Ambition
, 184; Dean Interview, April 16, 1988.

3.
NYT
, August 6, 1973; Lichenstein Interview, November 22, 1985.

4.
Martin to the Files, Gray/Wiretap Investigation, Francis Martin Files, WGSPF Records, NA.

5.
Patrick O’Donnell to Gray, June 13, 1972, Clark Mollenhoff Papers, Box 59, State Historical Society of Wisconsin; Lichenstein Interview, November 22, 1985; Neil Welch and David W. Marston,
Inside Hoover’s FBI
(New York, 1984), 198.

6.
Louis Patrick Gray III
, Hearings, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, 93 Cong., 1 Sess. (February 28, March 1–22, 1973).

7.
PPPUS:RN
, March 2, 1973, 160;
ibid.
, March 15, 1973, 272; “Statement by the President on Executive Privilege,”
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
(March 12, 1973), 9:253–54; Richard Nixon,
RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon
(paperback ed., New York, 1979), 2:303 (italics in original).

8.
TT, Telephone Conversation, Ehrlichman and Gray, March 7 or 8, 1973, HJC,
Statement of Information
, 3:768; Ehrlichman Notes, March 8, 1973, Ehrlichman Papers, Box 28, NP; Lichenstein Interview, November 22, 1985; Gray Interview, July 18, 1973, Gray Witness File, July 18, 1973, WGSPF Records, NA.

9.
TT, Telephone Conversation, Ehrlichman and Dean, March 7 or 8, 1973, HJC,
Statement of Information
, 3:768–69; TT, the President, Dean, and Haldeman, March 13, 1973 (12:42
P.M.
–2:00
P.M.
), HJC,
Transcripts of Eight Recorded Presidential Conversations
, 61.

10.
TT, the President, Dean, and Haldeman, March 21, 1973 (10:12
A.M.
–11:55
A.M.
),
U.S. v. M
, NA.

11.
Lichenstein Interview, November 22, 1985;
Gray Hearings
, 100–44, 309–19, 323–43, 661–94.

12.
Ehrlichman Notes, March 27, April 5, April 11, 1973, Ehrlichman Papers, Box 14, NP; Telephone Conversation Summary, William Timmons to Ehrlichman, April 4, 1973, Ehrlichman Papers, Box 65, NP; “Statement About Intention to Withdraw the Nomination of L. Patrick Gray III,”
PPPUS:RN, 1973
(April 9, 1973), 257; Telephone Conversation Summary, Louis Nichols to Rose Mary Woods, May 8, 1973, NPF, Box 19, NP.

13.
John D. Ehrlichman,
Witness to Power
(New York, 1982), 374–75; Richard Kleindienst,
Justice
(Ottawa, IL, 1985), 158; Ehrlichman Notes, April 4, 1973, Ehrlichman Papers, Box 14, NP.

14.
Joseph Spear,
President and the Press: The Nixon Legacy
(Cambridge, MA, 1984), 194.

15.
PPPUS:RN, 1973
, March 12, 1973, 184–87.

16.
TT, the President, Dean, and Haldeman, March 13, 1973 (12:42
P.M.
—2:00
P.M.
), HJC,
Transcripts of Eight Recorded Presidential Conversations
, 47–48.

17.
TT, the President, Dean, and Haldeman, March 17, 1973 (1:25
P.M.
—2:10
P.M.
),
U.S. v. M
, NA. For the CIA interest in the Ellsberg matter, Colby Interview, October 9, 1987, was useful.

18.
TT, the President, Dean, and Haldeman, March 21, 1973 (10:12
A.M.
–11:55
A.M.
),
U. S. v. M
, NA; Colby Interview, October 9, 1987.

19.
Dean,
Blind Ambition
, 226–30.

20.
TT, the President, Dean, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman, March 21, 1973 (5:20
P.M.
–6:01
P.M.
),
U. S. v. M
, NA; Moore Interview, December 5, 1987; Fielding Interview, July 12, 1973, SSC Records, NA.

21.
TT, Telephone Conversation, the President and Colson, March 21, 1973 (7:53
P.M.
–8:34
P.M.
), Nixon Papers, Box 172, NP. Some of this transcript appeared as part of the record in
U.S. v. M
, NA, and additional pages subsequently were published in the
WP
, May 1, 1977.

22.
TT, Dictabelt Recording, President’s Recollection of March 21 Conversation, HJC,
Statement of Information
, 3:1245–49. Again, the President ignored the fact that he had learned of the psychiatrist’s-office break-in on March 17—at the very latest. The Dictabelt “diary” recordings are widely used in the President’s memoirs, but many of them may never be subjected to independent scrutiny.

23.
TT, the President and Haldeman, March 20, 1973 (6:00
P.M.
–7:10
P.M.
),
U.S. v. M
, NA.

24.
TT, the President and Haldeman, March 22, 1983 (9:11
A.M.
–10:35
A.M.
),
U.S. v. M
, NA.

25.
TT, the President, Dean, Ehrlichman, Haldeman, and Mitchell, March 22, 1973, (1:57
P.M.
–3:43
P.M.
),
U.S. v. M
, NA.

26.
NYT
, March 26, 1973; TT, the President, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Ziegler, March 27, 1973 (11:10
A.M.
–1:30
P.M.
),
U.S. v. M
, NA; Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein,
All the President’s Men
(New York, 1974), 278.

27.
Dean Testimony, HJC,
Testimony of Witnesses
(July 11, 1974), 2:252, 275.

28.
TT, the President, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Ziegler, March 27, 1973 (11:10
A.M.
–1:30
P.M.
),
U. S. v. M
, NA;
ibid.
, J. Fred Buzhardt Notes, courtesy of Mrs. Buzhardt; Garment Interview, June 26, 1985.

29.
H. R. Haldeman,
The Ends of Power
(New York, 1978), 224; Dean,
Blind Ambition
, 222–25; Ehrlichman Notes, March 23, 1973, Ehrlichman Papers, Box 14, NP.

30.
Goldwater to Nixon, March 29, 1973, NPF, Box 8, NP.

XII: “WE HAVE TO PRICK THE GODDAM BOIL AND TAKE THE HEAT.” CUTTING LOOSE: APRIL 1973

1.
Ehrlichman Notes, April 2, 1973, April 4, 1974, Ehrlichman Papers, Box 14, NP.

2.
TT, Telephone Conversation, the President and Ehrlichman, April 8, 1973 (7:33
A.M.
–7:37
A.M.
),
Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives
, Richard Nixon, April 30, 1974. Hereafter cited as
WHT.

3.
TT, Telephone Conversation, Larry Higby and Jeb Magruder, April 13, 1973, HJC,
Statement of Information
, 4 (Part 2):612–55; Jeb Stuart Magruder,
An American Life
(New York, 1974), 319–26.

4.
Ehrlichman’s report is in Ehrlichman Papers, Box 214, NP, and reprinted in part in his memoir.

5.
Haldeman has given and published various versions of the origins of the taping system, most recently in “The Nixon White House Tapes: The Decision to Record Presidential Conversations,”
Prologue
(Summer 1988), 20:79–87.

6.
TT, the President, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman, April 14, 1973, Executive Office Building (8:55
A.M.
–11:31
A.M.
),
U.S. v. M
, NA. The Agnew information is in the draft transcript of this meeting, Nixon Papers, Box 172, NP; Agnew Interview, January 14, 1989; Agnew to Author, February 1, 1989.

7.
TT, the President, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman, April 14, 1973, Executive Office Building (8:55
A.M.
–11:31
A.M.
),
U.S. v. M
, NA; TT, Telephone Conversation, Ehrlichman and Mitchell, April 11, 1973, Ehrlichman Papers, Box 213, NP.

8.
TT, the President, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman, April 14, 1973, Executive Office Building (8:55
A.M.
–11:31
A.M.
),
U.S. v. M
, NA; Haldeman Notes, April 8, 13, 1973, Haldeman Papers, Box 47, NP.

9.
TT, the President and Haldeman, April 14, 1973 (1:55
P.M.
–2:13
P.M.
), HJC,
Statement of Information
, 4 (Part 2):773–76.

10.
TT, Ehrlichman and Mitchell, April 14, 1973, HJC,
Statement of Information
, 4 (Part 2):725–68; TT, the President, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman, April 14, 1973 (2:24
P.M.
–3:55
P.M.
),
U.S. v. M
, NA; Richard Nixon,
RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon
(paperback ed., New York, 1979), 2:349; John Ehrlichman,
Witness to Power
(New York, 1982), 380.

11.
TT, the President, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman, April 14, 1973 (2:24
P.M.
–3:55
P.M.
),
U.S. v. M
, NA.

12.
TT, the President, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman, April 14, 1973 (5:15
P.M.
–6:45
P.M.
),
U.S. v. M
, NA.

13.
Richard Kleindienst,
Justice
(Ottawa, IL, 1985), 158–60; Nixon,
Memoirs
, 2:350.

14.
Nixon,
Memoirs
, 2:350–54.

15.
TT, Telephone Conversation, the President and Haldeman, April 14, 1973 (11:02
P.M.
–11:16
P.M.
),
U.S. v. M
, NA.

16.
TT, Telephone Conversation, the President and Ehrlichman, April 14, 1973 (11:22
P.M.
–11:53
P.M.
),
U.S. v. M
, NA. President’s edited copy in Nixon Papers, Box 172, NP. Nixon,
Memoirs
, 2:355.

17.
Silbert to Cox, May 31, 1973, courtesy of Mr. Silbert; Silbert Diary.

18.
Silbert Diary; Petersen Testimony, HJC,
Testimony of Witnesses
(July 12, 1974), 3:114; Kleindienst,
Justice
, 160–61.

19.
TT, the President and Ehrlichman, April 15, 1973 (10:35
A.M.
–11:15
A.M.
),
U.S. v. M
, NA.

20.
TT, the President and Kleindienst, April 15, 1973 (1:12
P.M.
–2:22
P.M.
),
WHT;
Kleindienst,
Justice
, 162; Petersen Testimony, HJC,
Testimony of Witnesses
(July 12, 1974), 3:82; Petersen Interview, August 23, 1985.

21.
TT, Telephone Conversation, the President and Haldeman, April 15, 1973 (3:27
P.M.
–3:44
P.M.
),
WHT.

22.
TT, Telephone Conversation, Higby and Haldeman, April 15, 1973,
WHT;
Transcript of Fred Buzhardt Tape No. 3, Buzhardt MS, Courtesy of Mrs. J. F. Buzhardt.

23.
TT, Telephone Conversations, the President and Henry Petersen, April 15, 1973 (8:14
P.M.
–8:18
P.M.
; 8:25
P.M.
–8:26
P.M.
; 9:39
P.M.
–9:41
P.M.
; 11:45
P.M.
–11:53
P.M.
),
WHT;
Dean,
Blind Ambition
, 261–63. Dean Testimony, SSC,
Hearings
, 4:1576–77.

24.
TT, the President, Ehrlichman and Haldeman, April 16, 1973 (9:50
A.M.
–9:59
A.M.
),
U.S. v. M
, NA; Ehrlichman Notes, April 16, 1973, Ehrlichman Papers, Box 13, NP.

25.
TT, the President and Dean, April 16, 1973 (10:00
A.M.
–10:40
A.M.
),
U.S. v. M
, NA; TT, the President, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman, April 16, 1973 (10:50
A.M.
–11:04
A.M.
),
U.S. v. M
, NA.