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39. Sam Dash, Chief Counsel (New York, 1976), p. 192.


40. Evans and Novak, July 11, 1973.


41. Washington Post, August 7, 1973.


42. Washington Post, August 9, 1973.


43. Washington Post, August 10, 1973.


44. Washington Post, October 11, 1973.


45. Washington Post, October 24, 1973.


46. Washington Post, November 17, 1973.


47. Bernstein and Woodward, The Final Days, pp. 159, 176.


48. RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, p. 1042.


49. Fitzhugh Green, p. 135.


50. The Final days, p. 368.


51. The Final Days, p. 369.


52. For the "smoking gun" transcript of June 23, 1972, see Washington Post, August 6, 1974.


53. H. R. Haldeman, The Ends of Power (New York, 1978), p. 64.


54. The Final Days, p. 374.


55. Available accounts of Nixon's last cabinet meeting are fragmentary, but see: RN: The Memoirs
    of Richard Nixon, p. 1066; The Final Days, pp. 386-389; Theodore H. White, Breach of Faith: The
    Fall of Richard Nixon (New York, 1975), p. 24; Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval, pp. 1202-
    1203; J. Anthony Lukas, Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years (New York, 1976), pp 558-559. These have been collated for the account offered here.


56. The ostensible full text of this letter is found in Nicholas King, George Bush: A Biography
    (New York, 1980), p. 87. Vic Gold gives only seven lines of excerpts. Fitzhugh Green, in his post

November 1988 hacalculating eye of the public relations man is observing the reader like the sucker in a medicinegiography, liquidates the matter in fewer than five lines. In each case the (^)
show. Apparently Bush's handlers concluded that there was less and less to gain from distancing
their candidate from Nixon; perhaps their polls were showing that popular resentment of Nixon had
somewhat declined.

57. Maurice H. Stans, The Terrors of Justice: The Untold Side of Watergate, p. 66.
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