Impressive collection of over 140 items consisting primarily of letters, signatures, photos, and covers, each signed in ink by a notable figure in the Watergate scandal, including President Nixon, reporters Woodward and Bernstein, key players Haldeman and Erlichman, and all members of the Senate Watergate Committee. Especially interesting quotes within letters in this archive follow:
Archibald Cox: “The available evidence, so far as I know, does not show any criminal misconduct in the 18.5 minute erasure from a Watergate tape. I have not speculated further.”
Lowell Weicker: “I believe President Ford was wrong to pardon President Nixon. The American judicial process should have been respected.”
Alexander Butterfield: “I didn’t volunteer the information—I simply answered a direct question which was put to me. I feel I had no choice but to answer honestly. But my guess is that he [Nixon] would have wanted me to waffle, equivocate or lie. That was his nature.”
Sam J. Ervin: “Ford’s pardon…was entirely premature and that he ought never to have considered pardoning him [Nixon] at all unless he had been charged, tried, and convicted of some criminal offense, such as obstructing justice…Ford did great violence to the fundamental principle of good government embodied in the doctrine that all men should stand equal before the law.”
In overall fine condition. An extraordinary archive and veritable who’s who of the Watergate scandal, in which many of the key players comment on the case.
Signers include: Spiro T. Agnew, Bernard L. Baker, Howard H. Baker, Jr., Richard Ben-Veniste, Carl Bernstein, Philip W. Buchen, Alexander P. Butterfield (3), J. Fred Buzhardt, Robert A. Caro, Dwight Chapin, Charles W. Colson, Archibald Cox (10), Lawrence A. Cremin, Samuel Dash (2), John W. Dean III, Harry S. Dent, John Doar, Harold Donohue, John Ehrlichman (3), Sam J. Ervin, Jr. (3), L. Patrick Gray III (3), Edward Gurney (2), Alexander Haig (4), H. R. Haldeman (4), Richard Helms, William L. Hungate, E. Howard Hunt (2), Daniel K. Inouye (3), Leon Jaworski (3), Richard Kleindienst (2), Alfred Knopf, Jr., William F. Knowland (2), Bud Krogh, Paul William Leeper, G. Gordon Liddy (2), James McCord, John Mitchell, John N. Mitchell, Martha Mitchell (2), Joseph M. Montoya (2), Richard Nixon (3), Lawrence F. O’Brien (2), John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Peter W. Rodino, Jr. (2), Donald Segretti, John J. Sirica (5), Hugh W. Sloan, Jr., Henry P. Smith, Maurice Stans (3), Frank Sturgis, Robert Taft, Herman Talmadge (2), Lowell Weicker, Jr. (3), Rose Mary Woods (3), Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, and Ron Ziegler (3).
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