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Nixon Watergate testimony set for release

SOURCE: UPI (10-12-11)


WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- The transcript of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon's testimony to the Watergate grand jury will be made public Nov. 10, a man who pushed for the release said.

Historian Stanley Kutler told The Washington Post the Nixon Presidential Library and Archives in California will release a series of recordings and documents in addition to the grand jury transcript.

Kutler was among a group of historians who sued to make the materials available to the public.

Previously Nixon's testimony had been redacted under laws that shield grand jury materials.

Steven Aftergood, who directs the Project on Government Secrecy for the Federation of American Scientists, called the upcoming release "a missing piece or the puzzle about the Nixon administration."...

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UPI
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http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/10/12/Nixon-Watergate-testimony-set-for-release/UPI-39741318420115/#ixzz1ab2Hk9dx
Date: 
10-12-11