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Damning Evidence. Speaking as an advocate, St. Clair could hardly be expected to read evidence of wrongdoing into any Nixonian ambiguities. But many a reader of the transcripts did just that?and saw a record of presidential transgressions against both the letter and the spirit of the law. That...
...more damning because the conversations on which St. Clair had based his brief were selected by Nixon and his staff. The mass of material that they did not hand over or that was found "unintelligible" by Administration stenographers could hardly have been more helpful to the beleaguered President...
...searing reality of the transcripts made the White House campaign an almost Sisyphean enterprise. By delaying their issuance for half a day so that St. Clair's brief could have an unrivaled circulation, the White House won a few hours of suspended judgment. But once the transcripts became available and began to be plumbed, the severity of the President's difficulties soon began to seep across the capital and the rest of the nation. Not many Republicans, who had initially rejoiced at his speech, had the temerity of Vice President Gerald Ford, who proclaimed that the transcripts "show the President...
...President in his speech and St. Clair in his brief attempted to defend Nixon in some?but not all?of the most potentially damaging areas of evidence presented in the transcripts. An analysis of their contentions and of the transcript evidence in three key areas...
When did the President learn of the coverup? John Dean testified to the Senate Watergate committee that he inferred that Nixon was "fully aware" of the effort to hide White House staff involvement in the Watergate break-in as early as Sept. 15, 1972. Nixon and St. Clair argue that the President learned of the cover-up only on March 21, 1973, when Dean told him. They point out that Dean, after all, himself requested the meeting to lay out for the President all the facts of the coverup. They cite that in the process of doing so. Dean said...