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Tuesday, May 02, 1972
- J Edgar Hoover dies and is replaced by L Patrick Gray.
Wednesday, May 02, 1973
- Nixon and Ehrlichman have their last official meeting. Nixon asks him if he had known about the break in at Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office in 1971. Ehrlichman acknowledges that he did.
Thursday, May 02, 1974
- Nixon's lawyers arrive in Sirica's court to oppose the subpoenas.
"I know it violates the sensibilities of the innocent and tender-minded, but in the real world you sometimes have to employ extreme and extralegal methods to preserve the very system whos laws you're violating. "
G Gordon Liddy | Watergate Conspirator