Pat Speer says, I just listened to a Watergate tape on the Miller Centers website that included something I didnt quite remember. I then double-checked this against the transcript for this tape on the Miller Centers website, and found that the section I found so interesting was not in the transcript, but was replaced by the words RESTRICTED--B. millercenter....SFP_587-003.pdf So, while Im not the first person to listen to this tape, I might be the first person to share its significance with the research community. During an October 8,1971 discussion with top domestic aide John Ehrlichman and Attorney General John Mitchell, in which the three men discussed FBI Director J. Edgar Hoovers anger over former FBI man William Sullivans transfer of illegal wiretap recordings (which had been ordered by President Richard Nixon) from the possession of the FBI to Robert Mardian a Nixon loyalist, (which cut into Hoovers ability to blackmail Nixon), Nixon offers up that Ehrlichman should explain to Hoover that Nixon wants to personally oversee the security of sensitive documents. Nixon then offers that Also, you can say the Presidents got (CIA Director Richard) Helms stuff--which I get today--or so I understand (to which Ehrlichman replies in the affirmative)--of the Kennedy assassination.Nixon then says something that sounds a bit like Im onto the Kennedy assassination...again. (It is my recollection that Ehrlichman admitted his being told to discuss the assassination with Helms. I dont recall, however, that Nixons involvement in this was confirmed by a tape. I googled the key part of the quote-- Helms stuff, moreover, and found no previous reference to this recording.) Listen to it yourself. Its at the 51:30 mark on tape 587a, available here: millercenter....s/nixon/1971/10 Perhaps one of our members with the know-how can clean it up, so we can figure out exactly what Nixon said. Five men arrested for breaking and entering into the DNC headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. There were three prior break-ins before the five were arrested. This taped conversation Nixon had in October 8,1971 and the break-in of June 17, 1972 is eight months. All four break-ins did not happen back to back, but over the time of eight months.
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