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Wednesday October 25 9:53 PM ET
Nixon Tapes Worry Bush Campaign
By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The George W. Bush campaign has expressed
concern about the scheduled release Thursday of 420 hours of
former President Nixon's secret White House tapes that include
the voice of the presidential candidate's father.
The elder Bush is heard talking, or is talked about, in more than
100 of the 4,140 conversations that are to be made public by the
National Archives, according to a listing prepared by the
archives. The tapes carry conversations that occurred in late
1971, when former President Bush was U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations.
``We did call to express concern, you bet,'' Bush campaign
spokesman Ari Fleischer said Wednesday night. ``We do have an
ongoing concern about whether this administration is going to
create external events to influence the outcome of this
election.''
``We expressed a concern about the timing. We were told that
these are predetermined dates (for Nixon tape releases), and we
accept that.''
The Bush campaign has harshly criticized members of President
Clinton's Cabinet for going to bat for Democrat Al Gore's
presidential campaign.
``We have concerns about this administration doing anything that
could discredit Republicans,'' Fleischer said.
Fleischer said the campaign expressed its concerns to Jim
Cicconi, who worked in the Bush White House and helped set up the
Bush presidential library. Cicconi then called National Archives
director John Carlin to inquire about the Nixon tape release,
said Susan Cooper, a spokeswoman for the archives.
She said she did not know whether Cicconi specifically asked the
archivist to delay the release of the tapes until after the
election.
Cicconi, a Washington lawyer for AT&T, did not return repeated
calls by The Associated Press to his office and home.
Nixon installed his taping system in the White House in early
1971. The existence of the taping system was revealed during
testimony to the Senate Watergate committee in 1973. The
governmentseized the recordings when Nixon resigned. Following
years of legal wrangling, the National Archives began to release
batches of tapes, which have never been heard before.
On Thursday, the archives plans to open to the public more than
4,000 conversations that Nixon recorded between August and
December of 1971.
A source familiar with the flap said the Bush camp was indeed
worried that any untoward remarks by Nixon or other key
Republican figures that might be on the recordings could affect
his son's bid for the presidency just two weeks before the
election.
John H. Taylor, executive director of the Richard Nixon Library &
Birthplace Foundation in Yorba Linda, Calif., who is familiar
with the Nixon tapes being released, said he had no knowledge of
any concerns being raised by the Bush campaign.
``I have substantial familiarity with the content of the release.
I can assure you there is absolutely nothing that's prejudicial
in the least to the Bush family,'' Taylor said.
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