Here is how the Watergate story was revealed to the public, connection by connection, leading from a mysterious break-in all the way to President Richard M. Nixon.
Cox subpoenas the tapes of nine presidential meetings. Nixon refuses to turn them over, citing executive privilege, and sets up a constitutional confrontation. In August, Sirica would rule that the president has to turn over the tapes; the White House would appeal. On Oct. 12, the U.S. Court of Appeals upholds Sirica’s ruling.
The administration, bowing to public pressure, later releases tapes of seven of the meetings Cox requested. Recordings of the two other meetings don’t exist, Nixon’s lawyers say.Leon Jaworski, would be appointed and would resume and expand the battle for the tapes.
The summary concludes, “Not once does it appear that the President of the United States was engaged in a criminal plot to obstruct justice.”, “open to other interpretations.” In various conversations, from September 1972 through April 1973, the president discussed raising blackmail money and the merits of offering clemency or parole to those convicted, and he urged the adoption of a “national security” defense for potential White House defendants.
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