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Document 262721
RICHARD NIXON. TLS: "RN" as President, 1p, 5½x8¼.
The White House, Washington, 1972 June 21. To aircraft manufacturer
and inventor William P. Lear. In part: "We rejoice with your
family and friends on your seventieth birthday...Pat and I are proud of the warm
friendship and generous support you and Moya have given us...We hope that the
future will bring you a full measure of the satisfaction you so richly
deserve...." The Watergate tapes reveal that four days after the Watergate
break-in, on June 21, 1972, the day Nixon wrote this letter, at 9:30 A.M.,
the President asked Bob Haldeman: "What is the dope on the Watergate incident?
Anything break on that?" Haldeman: "There's nothing new...John [Mitchell] laid out
a scenario, which would involve this guy Liddy at the committee confessing and
talking, moving the thing up to that level, saying, yeah, I did it, I did
it. I hired these guys, sent them over there because I thought it would be a
good move and build me up in the operation. I'm the little guy." Nixon: "You
mean, you'd have Liddy confess and say he did it unauthorized?" Haldeman:
"Unauthorized. You establish the admission of guilt at a local level and get rid
of it, rather than letting it imply guilt up to the highest levels, which is, of
course, what they're trying very hard to do. By they, the press and the
Democrats." Nixon: "Well, sure it is. I understand that." Tape residue at top
edge, else fine condition.
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