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Thursday, July 26, 1973

Friday, July 26, 1974

Sirica is displeased as St. Clair asks for more time to produce the tapes. He tells St. Clair and Jaworski to sort out a timeline (eventually settling on the following Tuesday) for the first batch of tapes with more coming the following week. St. Clair says he'll recommend this timeline to the President, but the decision is Nixon's. Sirica demands St. Clair listen to the tapes and turnover the ones needed.
Gergen recommends the President request an immediate vote on impeachment, which they expect to lose, but it will give them a trial in the Senate where they could attack the evidence. He suggests the move will give the President momentum before the trial. Others are concerned that since they can't be sure of what is on the tapes, they aren't sure of the best course of action. They decide Pat Buchanan was the best choice to listen to the tapes and make a decision.

"I don't respect the type of shabby journalism that is being practiced by the Washington Post."

Ron Ziegler | White House Press Secretary