Each release has added something the official story left out. The 2026 pages showed Nixon telling prosecutors about the Joint Chiefs’ spy ring, and prosecutors cutting him off. A memo posted by Geoff Shepard and cited by Blackman shows a prosecutor, Philip Lacovara, telling Jaworski in September 1974 that Ford’s pardon might break the special prosecutor’s rules. [1]
Parts are still closed, including the stenographer’s tape of Nixon’s deposition. [2] The final tapes were not released until 2013, nearly forty years later. [3] On this view, the history is still being written, and each release has made Nixon’s opponents look less like neutral defenders of the law.
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