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.
Garment and Nixon met when Nixon joined the law firm where Garment was a partner in 1963. The two men became close, and Garment went to work in the Nixon White House, serving on a number of projects and becoming White House counsel.