Hitherto unpublished transcripts of Watergate tapes reveal that former President Nixon was worried that Jews on the White House staff were leaking information to Jewish reporters and complained to his press secretary, Ron Ziegler, that he was surrounded by Jews, the New York Daily News reported today.
According to the News, Nixon, “talking about the tapes of conversations he had with his one-time counsel, John Dean, told press secretary Ron Ziegler”. . .and I talked about Jews….I said we’re not going to–there’s now a Jewish seat (on the Supreme Court)….I said I’ve got them all around me. I’ve got Kissinger and I’ve got (Herbert) Stein…uh, and I said, and I pointed out our Jewish friends–even on our White House staff–leak to Jews. But Dean says, there’ll never be a leak out of me. I just don’t know how to leak.”
The transcripts which show that Nixon was aware of “hush money” for the Watergate burglars more than a year before he resigned from the Presidency in August, 1974, were excerpted today in the Washington Post, the New York Times and the News. The News was the only paper to publish the section containing references to Jews.
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