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Correspondent David Beckwith, a member of our Washington Bureau since 1972, did the major reporting for the story. One of a handful of Washington-based journalists with a law degree, Beckwith regularly covers the Supreme Court and the Justice Department for TIME. The assignment led him to Sirica's courtroom a year ago, and from there to a close association with the judge. "Sirica has always been accessible to newsmen," Beckwith says, "but he has a highly developed sense of decorum, and is well respected by the press for his discretion." Beckwith spent hours with the judge...
...Douglas' attitudes are not the predictable batch of anti-Establishment dissents that many might suppose. In a long interview with TIME's David Beckwith, Douglas reviewed his passage from Yakima, Wash., to Washington, D.C., and offered his own report on the current state of the nation. Excerpts...
...defines himself more precisely as "a classical liberal-someone who thinks that governmental intervention in individual affairs always has to be examined closely to make sure that the benefits of the intervention exceed what are bound to be the costs." In a series of interviews, TIME's David Beckwith sought a sense of how that general philosophy might apply to the positions the new Solicitor General will be urging the Justices of the Supreme Court to adopt...
...testified 19 times before grand juries and congressional committees. For security reasons, on those occasions his legs are put in irons and his wrists are manacled to a chain round his waist. Much of the time, however, Hunt broods bitterly in his cell. Last week TIME Correspondent David Beckwith visited him and sent this report...
...correspondents cover every word of the hearings. David Beckwith, himself a lawyer, spends almost five hours a day sitting virtually at each witness's left hand, watching and taking notes on the testimony (almost 6,000 pages so far). Former Saigon Bureau Chief Stanley Cloud concentrates primarily on the members and staff of the Ervin committee. Senior Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil amasses political reactions to Watergate and also serves as our constitutional expert...