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Title: President Richard M. Nixon Watergate tapes. Haldeman tries to convince the President he will survive this crisis
Speaker: Richard M. Nixon
Delivered On: 1973-03-20
Place: Oval Office. The White House
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Description: PARTICIPANTS: President Nixon, H.R.Haldeman

(Continuation of conversation.) This conversation between the President and Haldeman reveals the President's growing frustration with the Watergate affair. Haldeman pleads with the President to protect their "friends" on the Watergate side; Haldeman tries to convince the President he will survive this crisis; concern over Mitchell's knowledge of Liddy's intelligence operation. Haldeman is fatalistic about his own fate; he believes he will be a fall guy to protect others.
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