If Nixon had a legal obligation to offer to buy back shares from shareholders due to some planned maneuver to actually become a private company 'the right way,' he'd have to contact all of the shareholders in person (i.e. mail to all, or maybe a message through their brokers). He could not simply do the buy-back anonymously.
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