The Nation: The Evidence: Fitting the Pieces Together

Never in the 25-month history of the Watergate scandal had so much of the evidence been brought together in one place. The eight volumes of material released last week by the House Judiciary Committee assembled all the available bits and pieces of the Watergate mosaic: previously secret grand jury testimony furnished to the committee by Judge John Sirica, memos written by President Nixon and some of his high aides, Senate Watergate Committee testimony, tape recordings from the Oval Office, a presidential Dictabelt, and notes scrawled on legal-size pads in the President's irregular hand....