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Making their final summations earlier last week, the lawyers for the defense and prosecution tried to shape the great mass of evidence to their own ends. To defend Stans, Walter Bonner, 48, wore a flamboyant brown and yellow plaid suit, and he brought along a courtroom style to match. Laughing, shouting, waving his arms, steaming with barely controlled indignation, Bonner put on a Chautauqua performance for four hours. He claimed that his client had been unfairly afflicted by the prosecution with the blight of "Vescoitis"-the implication that Stans had been controlled in thought and deed by Financier Robert Vesco...
Referring to the same tape, Walter Bonner, the head of Stans' legal team, then got Dean to admit that he had told the President that no one in the White House had ever done anything to help Vesco. At the time, of course, Dean had tried-though unsuccessfully-to delay the Vesco subpoenas...
When Cook was brought under crossexamination, the strong case that he had built against Stans began to weaken. Bonner got Cook to admit that he had lied about the Vesco affair to various authorities not three times, as he had testified, but seven-including four times after he had told Stans he was going to tell the truth. The defense drew from Cook the admission that he had not been indicted for any of his perjuries. Asked by Fleming if he was not lying in court to save himself from prosecution by the Government, Cook said: "I am not lying...
Asked by Defense Lawyer Peter Fleming if Mitchell had ever requested him to "fix" the Vesco affair, Casey replied: "Nobody ever asked me to fix the case." And Walter Bonner, Stans' top lawyer, inquired: "Is it not a fact, Mr. Casey, that Maurice Stans never, never asked you to fix this complaint?" Casey replied: "That's a fact...
...probably will not be needed. His views drew an immediate rebuttal from top Democrats such as Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, who asserted that "the shortage remains and so does the crisis" and called for immediate nationwide rationing. Politics aside, the President seems badly mistaken on this issue. Z.D. Bonner, president of Gulf Oil's domestic operations, is convinced that gasoline supplies this spring will fall "on the order of 25% to 30%" below demand. Even the Federal Energy Office concedes that shortages in April and May could be "more critical" than in February...