...available, I personally directed the surveillance, including wiretapping, of certain specific individuals. I am familiar with the testimony given by Secretary...authority and were carrying out my express orders." None of the FBI documents relates to the meeting at which the decision was made to use wiretaps to...

...available, I personally directed the surveillance, including wiretapping, of certain specific individuals. I am familiar with the testimony given by Secretary...authority and were carrying out my express orders. The President's statement that he "personally directed the surveillance * * * of certain specific individuals"...

...available, I personally directed the surveillance, including wiretapping, of certain specific individuals. I am familiar with the testimony given by Secretary...operating under my specific authority and were carrying ont my express orders. The President's statement that he "personally directed the surveillance * *...

...BY THE CHAIRMAN FOB THE RECORD Question 1. In his July 12 letter the President said that you ". . . performed the function, at my request, of furnishing...effective investigation could be conducted in each case." Answer : I did not suggest any of the three categories established by the President. Insofar as I know,...

...your Committee to the effect that he performed the function, at my request, of furnishing informaion about individuals within investigative categories...Kissinger and others involved in various aspects of the investigation were operating under my specific authority and were carrying out my express orders....

...your Committee to the effect that he performed the function, at my request, of furnishing informaion about individuals within investigative categories...that an appropriate and effective investigation could he conducted in each case. This testimony is entirely correct, and I wish to affirm categorically that...

...take full blame for authorizing it. "I wish to affirm categorically," he wrote to a Senate committee, "that Secretary Kissinger and others involved in various...authority and were carrying out my express orders." Yet privately he often noted, with some justification, that Kissinger had spurred him to authorize...

...chairman, which was dated July 12, 1974, Nixon reaffirmed his 1973 public statement, stating categorically, "Secretary Kissinger and others involved in various...authority and were carrying out my express orders." His statements went far toward resolving the issue regarding Kissinger's continuing in office as secretary...