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    "ocrText": "election, I did work on individual topics with other people on the\nWhite House staff, substantively. I worked with Bryce Harlow on\ncampaign reform, he and I put that together. I worked very\nclosely with Dean Burch on \"Topic A\"--now, that's very sensitive,\nSO I'm going to be as vague as I can, O.K.?\nTG: Well stop there if it is.\nGS: No, no, it's not that sensitive. I did an awful lot of work for\n[J. Fred] Buzhardt for about the past eight months in publishing\nthe \"Blue Book\", the transcript of the tapes; listening to the\ntapes, preparing the index and analysis, transcribing the tapes,\norganizing what we did, all that stuff. My name will appear\nnowhere. I did all the research through Ehrlichman's files\nwhenever there was a file search that was done. They didn't want\nthe other lawyers in there. I worked very briefly on the short\ntenure of Judge [John] Sullivan, when Sullivan was here. I worked\nvery closely with Buzhardt and [James D.] St. Clair. I\ninterviewed and hired St. Clair's staff; I did all the\nadministrative work on putting that together. I got the lawyers\nfrom the Department of Justice that originally came over to aid in\nthe defense. I didn't do the substantive work but I know all the\npeople, and I know what they were working on. The only place--I\nsaid my name wouldn't appear--the only place my name appears is\n[a] memorandum from [Alexander M.] Haig, when Buzhardt had his\nheart attack, saying Shepard will decide who sees what files.\nThere had to be a double clearance (Secret Service cleared and the\nWhite House cleared) for anyone to get into the files. Buzhardt\nhad that authority; when Buzhardt had his heart attack and they\n22"
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