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Friday, March 10, 1972
- L Patrick Gray, an assistant attorney general, asks Felt to authenticate the Dita Beard memo, but Felt receives a call from John Dean asserting it is indeed a fake.
"(The edited transcripts of the secret tapes) will at last, once and for all, show that what I knew and what I did with regard to the Watergate break-in and cover-up were just as I have described them to you from the beginning."
Richard Nixon | President of the United States