Apart from the evidence it provides about the President's critical conversations, the edited transcript furnishes a potpourri of marginalia that limn the style and character of the Nixon White House. A representative sampler:
NIXON ON OTHERS
The President's confidential assessments of other men in talks with trusted aides were tough, candid, and often brutal:
Senator Howard Baker. "A smoothy—impressive" but also possessed of a "thick skull."
Senator Sam Ervin. "[Expletive deleted] He's got Baker totally toppled over to him. Ervin works harder than most of our Southern gentlemen."
L. Patrick Gray III. "Oh, he's dumb ... he is just quite...
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