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Adopted in an emotional closed meeting, the committee's list of certain witnesses includes two urged by James St. Clair, Nixon's chief Watergate defense lawyer. They are former Presidential Counsel John Dean and Frederick LaRue, a Nixon campaign aide who has pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in the Watergate cover-up conspiracy. In its attempt to clarify key points left in doubt by its closed-door staff briefings on the evidence, the committee also voted to hear Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's personal lawyer, who has pleaded guilty to illegal campaign fund-raising activities; Henry Petersen...
Omitted from the list but cited as potential witnesses were four men also requested by St. Clair: former Attorney General John Mitchell; former White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman; William O. Bittman, former lawyer for convicted Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt; and Paul L. O'Brien, a lawyer for Nixon's re-election committee. The fifth member of the backup list is Charles W. Colson, who has pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in the Ellsberg burglary case (see following stories). He is not one of the witnesses whom St. Clair wants the committee to call. Although...
...question of whether to schedule all of St. Clair's witnesses set off the most partisan wrangle of the committee hearings so far. Democrats argued that most had already testified in other forums and would delay the committee's work. The debate continued for nearly six hours, with four Democrats at one point joining a solid Republican lineup for including the St. Clair choices. That produced a 21-to-17 vote in St. Clair's favor. But then Chairman Rodino called a recess, caucused with the committee Democrats and persuaded two of the four (Don Edwards...
...committee returned to its closed-door briefings, St. Clair spent two days giving his version of the evidence that had been presented over the past six weeks by Doar and the committee's Republican counsel, Albert Jenner. St. Clair concentrated on Nixon's role in the payment of hush money to Hunt, a topic that the edited White House tape transcripts show was discussed at length by Nixon in a meeting with Dean and Haldeman on March 21,1973. St. Clair contends that Nixon's possible impeachment hangs almost solely on whether he approved such a payment...
...since. She worked at first for Harper's Bazaar, but in the 1940s her work caught the eye of New Yorker Editor William Shawn, who encouraged her to do the Long-Winded Lady pieces and stories as well. Her seven-year marriage to Fellow New Yorker Writer St. Clair McKelway ended in divorce...