On July 29, 2011, D.C. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth granted the petition of scholar Stanley Kutler to unseal Richard Nixon’s 1975 Watergate grand jury testimony, because “special circumstances” of “historical interest” in Watergate trumped Rule 6(e) grand jury secrecy. In re Petition of Kutler, 800 F.Supp.2d 42 (D.D.C., 2011). On Nov. 10, 2011, the actual stenographic pages, 297 in all, were released in PDF format with a few pages or lines “screened” out due to Freedom of Information Act exemptions, including national security.
The two full days of 36-year-old testimony sprawl with new yet familiar Nixon-isms. The former president promises to “be perfectly candid” under oath, but his answers are way dodgy, including that an IRS report his White House instigated on then-DNC chairman Larry O’Brien “may” have been in the “mass of material that comes across a president’s desk.” (p. 197) Nixon recalls he did not “want to give the store away” on Watergate. (p. 293) Instead, he shows his core.
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