Nixon, Volume III by Stephen E. Ambrose

Author:Stephen E. Ambrose
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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I. In the White House version, when Nixon complains that the bug in the DNC produced nothing, Colson replies, “Well, frankly we did,” followed by a pause and then a new subject. In the special prosecutor’s version, Colson replies, “apparently we did, of course, at Watergate mainly on Hughes.” The special prosecutor’s version was not available to scholars until June 1991, when the Nixon Presidential Materials Project released twenty-eight hours of tapes, primarily from the period January through April 1973. There were no great surprises, no smoking guns; there were additional details on how Mitchell got the money for Hunt, how deeply Mitchell was involved, how inventive Nixon was in explaining his motives, how quickly he could convince himself of his own innocence, how realistic he could be about dangers (did Dean have a tape?), how much he loved Six Crises and the Hiss case, and other Nixonana, as well as further confirmation that Hughes was the target of the original bug. The tapes are “sanitized.” The Archives removed national security-related material, purely personal items, and items that would damage a living person. Nixon had an opportunity to censor material, and did; how much he took out is not clear.

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