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...part of either the Justices or the attorneys, as the occasion demanded. To most laymen, however, the legal subtleties were not important. Mobbed by photographers and spectators on emerging from the hearing, Jaworski was confronted by loud applause and a shouted, highly unprofessional accolade: "Dynamite job, Leon!" St. Clair, smiling broadly and radiating confidence, was surrounded by a smaller but enthusiastic crowd...
...first four witnesses who testified before the committee in closed session last week had all been requested by the President's special counsel, James St. Clair. His aim has been to narrow the grounds for impeachment by maintaining to the committee that it must establish a direct link between Nixon and a criminal offense: in this case, the payment of hush money to Convicted Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt on March 21, 1973. Accordingly, he wanted the witnesses to declare that Nixon had not specifically ordered the payment of the $75,000 to Hunt. But no witness remembered...
...version is a 15-minute conversation that does not appear at all in the White House transcripts. It was omitted, Press Secretary Ron Ziegler explained with a straight face last week, because "in our judgment it was of dubious relevance." This incredible assertion was echoed by St. Clair. It contains this comment by the President on March 22,1973: "John Dean . . . put the fires out, almost got the damn thing nailed down till past the election and so forth. We all know what it is. Embarrassing goddamn thing the way it went, and so forth...
...President's defense on Watergate is contained in a separate 242-page volume, which the committee released together with last week's seven books of evidence. Prepared by Presidential Lawyer James St. Clair, it is the only portion of the massive document that attempts to draw specific conclusions. St. Clair cites Senate Watergate testimony by H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell that the President had no knowledge of the burglary or the coverup. The defense counsel's main focus, however, is on the crucial $75,000 payment to E. Howard Hunt, one of the convicted Watergate...
...Clair's relatively slender volume of defense is overshadowed by the seven books of evidence (ranging from 271 to 687 pages). Part 1 of the Judiciary Committee document details the formation of the "sophisticated intelligence-gathering system" that eventually led to the Watergate break-in and bugging. A second volume deals with the initial attempt to limit the case to the seven original burglars and their accomplices, while keeping the scandal away from the White House. A third section of two volumes focuses on the hush-money payments to Hunt and the continued cover-up efforts. The three-volume...