Sunday, August 04, 1974

• Price and Buchanan agree if the President gives a speech vowing to fight until the end on Monday after the truth of his lies have been revealed, the results will be devastating. Many agree they cannot pressure him to resign, but hope the events after the release of the tape will guide him in that direction. They decide to release a written statement from Nixon rather than hold a press conference. The President will disclose he'd made a serious omission about his actions in June 1972 regarding his direction to the FBI regarding their Watergate investigation.
• Buchanan and Price are livid when they learn the President had known about the June 23 tape prior to their work on his defense statement in May. Ziegler denies the President had listened to the tape, but multiple sources confirm it, specifically Buzhardt whom Nixon had told to listen to the June 23 tape only weeks earlier. Back at the White House, Steve Bull also confirms the President listened to the tape on May 6 and told as much to the grand jury.
• Haig tells Treasury Secretary William Simon if the President isn't truthful in his public statement he, along with Nixon's lawyers, would resign.