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Friday December 28, 1973
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This Day In 1970's History: Friday December 28, 1973
  • The U.S. Postal Service announced that increases in postal rates have been delayed until March 2. [CBS]

  • President Nixon has apparently scaled down "Operation Candor". The President now opposes the release of summaries of any of the White House tapes, though aides deny that the tapes could implicate the President in the Watergate cover-up as John Dean testified.

    A Washington Post story by reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward alleged that senior White House officials believe that President Nixon was involved in the Watergate cover-up. White House counsel Melvin Laird denied the story. [CBS]

  • Watergate conspirators E. Howard Hunt and Bernard Barker will be released from federal prison; appeals of their sentences are under consideration. [CBS]

  • A tax reform group associated with Ralph Nader filed suit in Washington to gain access to Richard Nixon's vice-presidential papers which are now in the National Archives. A joint committee of Congress is studying circumstances of the tax deduction which Nixon received for donating those papers. [CBS]

  • More details of the government's new fuel regulations were released. Enough home heating oil will be allocated to keep homes at a constant 68 degrees. Energy czar William Simon conceded that gas stations won't have as much gasoline as they did last year. Appearing on the CBS morning news, Simon agreed that allocation is a moderate form of rationing. [CBS]
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