`` We have changed the world '' despite Watergate , Nixon told grand jurors . Transcripts are among nearly 50,000 pages of documents released Thursday . Nixon 's successor , Gerald Ford , issued him a blanket pardon about a month after the resignation , foreclosing any prospect that the former president would ever face the prison terms many of his aides served . A recording describes Nixon 's talk with anti-war demonstrators . The tapes were made by White House counsel John Dean and his deputy William Ruckelshaus in 1973 as part of a probe into whether President Richard M. Nixon's campaign had coordinated with Moscow to influence American foreign
`` We have changed the world '' despite Watergate , Nixon told grand jurors . Transcripts are among nearly 50,000 pages of documents released Thursday . A recording describes Nixon 's talk with anti-war demonstrators . The tapes were made by White House counsel John Dean and his deputy William Ruckelshaus in 1973 as part of a probe into whether President Richard M. Nixon's campaign had coordinated with Moscow to influence American foreign