Talk:Henry E. Petersen

Watergate
Petersen is most well known for meeting with John Dean to discuss the Watergate investigation. He told Dean what the Justice Department (and FBI) was finding out, Dean was telling Nixon, and Nixon was telling his aides, who were thus able to prepare a defense based on the knowledge gained from Petersen. The Florida election is not what Petersen was known for. 76.195.126.249 (talk) 20:21, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The Nixon tapes also show the President, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman in April 1973 greatly regretting that Peterson had ever been "put in charge of the case," and trying to come up with a way to discredit him and get rid of him -- in favor of someone they felt they could control. -- Michael K Smith Talk 20:13, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Am I remembering this wrong or wasn't Peterson also the man to whom Nixon said, after Dean started to incriminate the White House for the cover-up, that "we got him on tape" and later on, realizing that with this remark he might have revealed the taping system in the Oval Office, backtracked by saying that he meant he recorded things only as a kind of personal diary? Might be worth mentioning here if that was so and someone has a good source to back that up. --Proofreader (talk) 19:01, 7 November 2022 (UTC)