The final regular checklist
of the set is topped off a bit but other than that nothing jumps out at you
about the front. This checklist happens to be much closer to the end of its
card range than the beginning so it doesn’t offer much of a preview. There are
quite a lot of guys whose names don’t fit. But it is the back of the card where
things get pretty interesting.
About three quarters of the
way down the left side things get a little wiggy. Card 613 is completely
obliterated and in its place goes card 618. In the latter card’s normal spot
goes card 681 which of course doesn’t even exist in this set and at the end of
the column Topps does another transposition with card 632 following card 622.
It was this whole snafu that made it a bit arduous to track down the true 613
card – it belonged to Dan Monzon – which was mentioned on that card’s post. We
have seen this checklist’s special set, the Rookie cards, and are now coming
down to the wire on the set as a whole. On the back the Pirates Team Photo card is unchecked but I always had that one. I guess I got a bit lazy.
On to the Watergate recap,
late April would be a busy time:
4/16/74 – Special Prosecutor
Leon Jaworski issues a subpoena for 42 additional White House tapes. To date portions
of 19 tapes and nearly 700 pages of transcripts had been turned over.
4/29/74 – President Nixon
makes his third nationally televised speech regarding Watergate. The immediate
theme of the speech is his response to the subpoenas which is that he has
prepared roughly 1,200 pages of transcripts from the requested tapes but he
will not be turning over those tapes themselves. Instead he invited House Judiciary
Committee Chairman Peter Rodino and ranking minority member Edward Hutchinson
to the White House to personally review the tapes. Nixon also reiterated the
sensitive security-related nature of the tape contents as his primary reason
for not releasing the tapes themselves. He reiterated his innocence of any
knowledge regarding the break-in’s significance to his inner circle or the
cover-up until a March 21, 1973 meeting with then White House attorney John
Dean, contrary to Dean’s testimony from that same year. Nixon then opined that
the tapes, while potentially embarrassing to him and his staff and subject to
various subjective interpretations, would validate his stance that he was not
involved in the planning or subsequent cover-up on the break-in.
No hook-up for the checklist
cards.
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