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...White House was to deliver its legal brief to Judge John J. Sirica (see box), arguing that the President has the absolute power to decide when the national welfare is best served by the release of presidential documents. Therefore, went the argument, the President can ignore Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox's subpoena of tape recordings of seven presidential meetings and one telephone conversation about Watergate...
...lesser jail term. Watergate has been unraveling in full view ever since. Fittingly, it has fallen to Judge Sirica to referee this week the first full round in the battle for the White House tapes, now under subpoena by both the Senate Watergate committee and Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. It may be among Sirica's last major decisions as a district-court judge; on his 70th birthday next March, he must decide between retirement and stepping down to senior-judge status...
Sandy Smith, the bureau's investigative expert, keeps a specially close watch on federal law enforcement agencies. Hays Gorey is principally responsible for the Department of Justice and the operations of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. White House Correspondent Dean Fischer covers the President's efforts to respond to the continuing crisis. Simmons Fentress, in addition to covering the political repercussions of the scandal, has also been tracing and tallying G.O.P. fund raising and spending patterns during...
...week the subpoenas and presidential refusals arced across Washington like shellfire. Watergate, for so long a kind of inchoate guerrilla war, had developed clear and momentous battle lines. Richard Nixon took his stand behind a barricade of Executive privilege. Neither Sam Ervin's Senate committee nor Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox would get the key White House tapes and documents they were demanding for their investigations of Watergate. At issue, the President declared, is "the independence of the three branches of our Government ... the very heart of our constitutional system." Sam Ervin had a different definition of the question: "Whether...
...second-floor Washington courtroom next week is one of the nation's foremost constitutional authorities, University of Texas Law Professor Charles Alan Wright. A prolific scholar and ambitious lawyer, Wright, despite his relatively youthful age of 45, is by no means overmatched against his twin adversaries Archibald Cox, Harvard law professor and special Watergate prosecutor, and Senator Sam Ervin, the constitutional doyen of the Congress...