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...most immediate source of difficulty for Nixon is the courts. Two weeks ago, the appeals court recommended that the White House and Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox seek a settlement in their fight over nine tape recordings of presidential conversations about Watergate. Despite three meetings totaling eight hours last week, the lawyers could not reach an agreement. TIME has learned that Nixon was willing to give Cox fairly detailed transcripts of the tapes, apparently because the President expects that a court decision might go against him, but continued to refuse to let the special prosecutor listen to the tapes themselves...
...wrongdoing, so voluble in defending the innocence of the President, Colson often seemed to be protesting too much. Federal prosecutors apparently thought so too. TIME has learned that the former White House special counsel not only may be among the first former officials to be indicted by Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox's grand jury but that he is under investigation as the possible source of the White House pressure that kept the Watergate wiretapping plan alive until it was finally approved...
...Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. White House lawyers were arguing that the President−because he was President−had the unlimited right to decide whether or not the tapes and papers should be given to a grand jury as requested. Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox was claiming that the President's powers were limited by the fact that the tapes were needed for criminal investigations, and no citizen could refuse such a request...
...School Professor who spent the summer assisting Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox '31, charges that the Justice Department's investigation of the break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters was "inadequately staffed" and that "there weren't enough first class people working...
Grounds for Silence. The indictments were greeted with some dismay by Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in Washington. There are so many separate investigations of Watergate and related affairs that they are bound to conflict. Cox had reportedly asked the grand jury to put off the indictments for a week so that Ehrlichman could be brought to Washington to testify further on Watergate, the ITT scandal, and probably on the Ellsberg break-in and other plumbers' activities. Now that he has been indicted, Ehrlichman has grounds for keeping silent, at least in regard to the Ellsberg burglary case. His attorneys...