Frost/Nixon: Behind the Scenes of the Nixon Interviews by David Frost

Author:David Frost [Frost, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mom 04/05/2014
ISBN: 9780061445866
Goodreads: 1906822
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2007-01-02T06:00:00+00:00

No one has accused Nixon of deliberately erasing the eighteen and a half minutes, but the circumstantial evidence of wrongdoing is strong. For one thing, a panel of technical experts that examined the tape, discounted the possibility—suggested by the president’s secretary, Rose Mary Woods—that the erasure was probably due to a “transcribing error.” Instead, the panel found between five and nine manual erasures responsible for creating the gap. Only three people had access to the machine: Ms. Woods, President Nixon, and an aide named Steve Bull. To date, no wrongdoing has been proven with respect to the erasures. At one point Al Haig suggested that only a “devil theory” could account for the gap.

Regarding the material itself, Haldeman’s notes refer only to the specific action the president ordered him to take in response to the break-in—a public relations offensive plus examining the Executive Office Building for recording devices possibly planted by the Democrats. In his book, The Ends of Power, Haldeman fleshes out his conversation with Nixon in a manner distinctly less benign:

NIXON: Colson can talk about the president, if he cracks. You know I was on Colson’s tail for months to nail Larry O’Brien on the Hughes deal. Colson told me he was going to get the information I wanted one way or another. And that was O’Brien’s office they were bugging, wasn’t it? Colson’s boy, Hunt, Christ!

HALDEMAN: Still, Magruder didn’t even mention Colson.

NIXON: He will.

HALDEMAN: Why?

NIXON: Colson called him and got the whole operation started. Right from the goddamn White House. With Hunt and Liddy sitting in his lap. I just hope the FBI doesn’t check the office log and put it together with that Hunt and Liddy meeting in Colson’s office.

5. “The most one-sided myth was that I used government agencies illegally by asking Secretary of the Treasury George Shultz to order Internal Revenue Service audits of a political adversary Larry O’Brien.”

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