Official and Confidential_ The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover - Anthony Summers [265]
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The raid on H.’s garbage was recalled by Charles Elliott and Jack Anderson. Kenneth Clawson described H.’s ‘jelly fish’ comment on former AG Ramsey Clark, and Edmund Muskie and Henry Reuss discussed FBI surveillance. Former Asst. AG Robert Mardian recalled H.’s threat to ‘tell all.’ Daniel and Patricia Ellsberg, and John Ehrlichman, were interviewed on the Ellsberg affair. Daniel Selznick’s interview of Cartha DeLoach provided information on the aging H.’s schedule. Patrick Buchanan’s advice to N. of Feb. 12, 1971 is in From: The President, Richard Nixon’s Secret Files, ed. Bruce Oudes, NY, Harper & Row, 1989, p. 217. H.’s view of Women’s Liberation as ‘subversive’ is at H. to SAC SF, May 7, 1970, FBI file on WL Movement, RR. The assertion that H. proposed the Kissinger taps is in RN, I, by Richard Nixon, NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1978, p. 479, in Years of Upheaval, by Henry Kissinger, Boston, Little, Brown, 1982, pp. 120, 1115, and in White House Years, by Henry Kissinger, Boston, Little, Brown, 1979, p. 252. Sullivan’s assertion that H. was ‘not of sound mind’ was in LAT, stay 15, 1973. While the description of Sullivan’s fall was from many sources, an especially useful source for this final phase was the Mardian Papers, HIW.
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Hobert Mardian and John Ehrlichman discussed their Oct. 3, 1971, meeting, and Mardian was most helpful for the chapter as a whole. H. R. Haldeman and former SAC Kenneth Whittaker recalled H. and RN at Key Biscayne. David Young and Gordon Liddy described events prior to Watergate, Larry Cohen passed in Sullivan’s comments on H.’s knowledge of Nixonian taping, and Andrew Tully recalled his revealing interview with H. N.’s White House discussion about the transcripts is in WHT, Oct. 3, 1971. The report on H. is Ehrlichman to N., Oct. 23, 1971, WHSF, NP. Nixon’s denial of any H. blackmail is in his book, RN, II, by Richard Nixon, NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1978, p. 75, and in a Nixon interview kindly supplied by Prof. Herbert Parmet. Seymour Hersch’s book, The Price of Power, NY, Summit, 1983, refers to missing transcripts at p. 398, and see Glanzer to Silbert, May 7, 1973, and the statement of Robert Mardian, taken by FBI Inspector Meincke, May 11, 1973, Mardian Papers, HIW. Nixon’s fear that H. would ‘pull down the temple’ is at WHT, Oct. 25, 1971, p. 3. Liddy’s reported claim that he had killed a man is in An American Life, by Jeb Magruder, NY, Atheneum, 1974, p. 175.
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Former reporter Mark Frazier was interviewed about his Harvard Crimson report, and forensic toxicologist Dr Michael Slade described thiophosphate. Scott Armstrong, Emily Sheketoff, and Nathaniel Akerman confirmed that Watergate investigators were told of operations against H.’s house, and Gordon Liddy, Howard Hunt, H. R. Haldeman, and Felipe DeDiego, were interviewed on the subject. Frank Sturgis’ comments were kindly obtained by Dan Christensen. Dr Bell’s widow Marilyn recalled H.’s plastic surgery, and Cartha DeLoach spoke of H.’s last days. Jack Anderson described his congressional testimony about FBI snooping, and Jay Robert Nash and Hank Messick said their books were found in H.’s house after his death. James Crawford, Dr Robert Choisser, Dr James Luke, and Dr Richard Welton discussed H.’s death, and Neil Gallagher and Egil Krogh were asked about Krogh’s alleged later comment. H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Richard Kleindienst, and Gordon Liddy were interviewed about Administration reactions to the death, and undertaker Wm. Reburn and neighbors Helen and Anthony Calomaris described events