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...once had promised to comply with any "definitive" Supreme Court decision, without explaining what he meant by the term, his aides will not renew even that vague pledge now. Such refusal to acknowledge that the President "is subject to the rule of law" last week was termed "shocking" by Chesterfield Smith, president of the American Bar Association...
...Never put off till tomorrow," exhorted Lord Chesterfield in 1749, "what you can do today." That the elegant earl never got around to marrying his son's mother and had a bad habit of keeping worthies like Dr. Johnson cooling their heels for hours in an anteroom attests to the fact that even the most well-intentioned men have been postponers ever. Quintus Fabius Maximus, one of the great Roman generals, was dubbed "Cunctator " (Delayer) for putting off battle until the last possible vinum break. Moses pleaded a speech defect to rationalize his reluctance to deliver Jehovah...
...marinate. Indeed, hurry can be the assassin of elegance. As T.H. White, author of Sword in the Stone, once wrote, time "is not meant to be devoured in an hour or a day, but to be consumed delicately and gradually and without haste." In other words, pace Lord Chesterfield, what you don't necessarily have to do today, by all means put Off until tomorrow...
...could Nixon take any comfort from a blast by Chesterfield Smith, a Lakeland, Fla., trial lawyer who is president of the American Bar Association. Said he: "I completely and wholly disagree with Mr. Nixon's contention that dragging out Watergate drags down America. The American people want wrongdoing uncovered and the wrongdoers punished, no matter how high the office they hold. By claiming Executive privilege, the President is obstructing justice, whether legally or illegally." Smith said that when Nixon claims that he is "not a crook," he ought "to define what a crook is. He has not aided...
...Archibald Cox. Smith condemned "this defiant flouting of laws and courts." The Louisiana Bar Association voted to censure Smith for his stand. Last week, at the A.B.A.'s midyear meeting in Houston, halfway through Smith's twelve-month term in office, some delegates were still grousing about "Chesterfield's outspokenness." Smith's Watergate stance, said Texas Bar President Leroy Jeffers, was an intemperate "catering to the popular passions of the time. Let American lawyers be no part of such rotten and shabby business...