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...Wolfe added 11 points and Tony Jenkins contributed eight points, all in the first half. Jenkins, plagued by foul trouble that sent him to the bench in the second half, returned to play the last...
That brought Judge Sirica back on center stage and in an unfamiliar and challenging role. In 16 years on the federal bench, Sirica had handled a wide gamut of criminal trials and civil suits, including highly complex antitrust cases. But now he was being asked to rule on an unprecedented claim by the Executive Branch that a President is immune from subpoenas because the courts have no power to enforce any order against him; that only the impeachment process of Congress can touch him. Moreover, argued Nixon's legal consultant, University of Texas Law Professor Charles Alan Wright, Nixon...
...attention he is receiving. Belying his tough-guy reputation, Sirica (pronounced Suh-rick-uh) has been known to get butterflies in his stomach when he has peeked into his courtroom and seen it jammed for a Watergate-related hearing. He carefully writes down and reads most pronouncements from the bench, not trusting his own instant phrasing...
...Wendell Willkie and Dwight Eisenhower, Sirica was appointed a federal judge by Eisenhower in 1957. "Hell, yes, I'm a Republican," he still says. "You can't change a fellow's feelings just because you give him a judicial robe. But when I get on the bench, then I'm nothing. Politics is out then. Then it's my duty to search for the truth...
...stand high, knowing that our Judicial Branch of the Government, through you, has saved our form of government from disaster. Your dedication to duty and to your oath of office, irrespective of the grave consequences that had to follow, have earned for you the everlasting gratitude of the bench and the bar of this country...