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...Judge Sirica. The judge will decide which parts of the tapes may be used in the trial, scheduled to begin Sept. 9, of six former Nixon aides charged with participating in the Watergate coverup. After listening to each tape, Nixon turned it over to two lawyers, J. Fred Buzhardt and St. Clair, who prepared copies for the White House of the reels containing the subpoenaed conversations to be sent to Sirica. Twenty of the tapes were delivered to the judge on Tuesday and another nine on Friday...
...Clair, overburdened on multiple fronts, was tied down to regular attendance at the Judiciary Committee's impeachment hearings. As the Supreme Court asked for briefs, Nixon's chief constitutional consultant, Charles Alan Wright, was off on a Baltic vacation cruise. Another top Nixon lawyer, J. Fred Buzhardt, was disabled by a heart attack...
...William Colby and have the agency investigated. But White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig and Henry Kissinger supposedly talked him out of it. (The one fact that Colson later denied was that Nixon had intended to dismiss Colby.) Colson surmised that Haig and White House Lawyer J. Fred Buzhardt worked incognito for the CIA and that maybe Kissinger did too. The President was prevented from acting by the disloyal people around him; his phone, Colson believed, was even tapped by the CIA so that the agency could follow his every move. "The President is scared as hell, especially when...
...Only Ehrlichman could browse through his files-stacks of yellow legal pads-and he could not take any notes on what he saw. He could only indicate what he wanted; then a junior White House attorney, Geoff Shepard, would mark the passage and show it to Presidential Attorney Fred Buzhardt. Buzhardt would screen this and consult with St. Clair, who presumably would take the matter up with Nixon. The process, according to Frates, produced "only an inch or so" of material. Ehrlichman finally protested and left...
...said, shaking a finger at St. Clair. "You broke it. I didn't think it was necessary in dealing with you to seek assurances in writing. I will determine what evidence goes to the jury, not Mr. Ehrlichman, not you, not the President." Called to the stand, Buzhardt testified that Ehrlichman's files were in Nixon's sole control and that only the President could authorize access to them...