Stanley Kutler dies at age 80

[Douglas Caddy]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/us/stanley-i-kutler-80-historian-who-won-release-of-nixon-tapes-dies.html

Prof. Kutler telephoned me twice about Watergate. His second call was to inform me that I was mentioned in the Nixon Oval Office tapes. I found him scholarly and courteous. He was the first ghost-writer approached by Judge Sirica to write the latter's Watergate memoir, but turned down the offer. Sirica's memoir, To Set The Record Straight, was a travesty of justice in the sense that it omitted his conscious manipulation of the scandal to suit his own political philosophy and to enrich himself through venality.

[Douglas Caddy]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/watergate-historian-kutler-dies-sued-to-release-nixon-tapes/2015/04/07/0350a092-dd92-11e4-b6d7-b9bc8acf16f7_story.html