Those opened so far show us mainly his ugly Watergate crimes, not his broader foreign and domestic ambitions.

Unlike executive privilege, which President Nixon invented in his failed effort to hide Watergate crimes, the lawyer-client privilege dates back to Elizabeth I and was part of American law at independence.

Mr. Nixon regrets not having pardoned his own top aides before they were tried for Watergate crimes.

He was speaking of the corpus delecti of my Watergate crime, which was an old-fashioned steamer trunk containing one million dollars in unmarked and circulated twenty-dollar bills.

When President Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for Watergate crimes - a precedent Mr. Bush ignored in his pardon message - he said he acted to restore harmony and move on.

It's this that people will remember, just as they remember Richard M. Nixon's contribution to the Watergate crime rather than his pardon by President Gerald R. Ford.

When Liddy entered prison for his Watergate crimes he allegedly used this trick to intimidate other inmates.

"Give me another reason some Americans condone the Watergate crimes."

However, Stans always maintained, and it has not been proven to the contrary, that he had no knowledge of the various Watergate crimes.