Leonard Garment, Nixon adviser, dies
Went to Brooklyn College, Later Lived in B’klyn Heights
Leonard Garment, a lawyer who was a friend and adviser to President Richard Nixon as the Watergate scandal unfolded and who urged him not to destroy tapes of his conversations, has died at age 89.
Garment, who had owned a house on Willow Place in Brooklyn Heights, died Saturday, his wife, Suzanne Garment, said Monday.