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White House lawyer James D. St. Clair said that the experts were not qualified to testify whether or not the gap was caused by accident. He objected successfully to any questions asking if the gap could have been caused inadvertantly...
...handle the latest stage of his Watergate defense, Nixon hired yet another attorney: Republican James D. St. Clair, 53, a meticulous and highly respected trial lawyer from Boston. He will take over from J. Fred Buzhardt and Leonard Garment. Buzhardt was named to John W. Dean's old job of White House counsel, in which he will handle the President's routine legal work. Garment was appointed a presidential assistant in the areas of civil rights and the arts. For months, Nixon had been unhappy with his defense team's work; White House aides went...
Difficult Task. A native of Akron, St. Clair graduated from the University of Illinois in 1941 and from Harvard Law School in 1947. During his legal career, he has held an improbable collection of jobs. In 1954 he served on the staff of Joseph N. Welch, whose televised condemnations of Senator Joseph...
McCarthy helped end the career of the Wisconsin Senator. Fourteen years later, St. Clair represented Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin during his trial in Boston for conspiracy to encourage draft evasion. More recently, he represented the Boston school committee in its lengthy attempt to avoid desegregation of the city's public schools. Explains St. Clair: "My politics have nothing to do with my professional representation...
Some of the classics in the world of the arts are like family heirlooms, objects of lingering sentiment rather than pinnacles of aesthetic quality. Is the Mona Lisa a great painting, Les Sylphides a great ballet, or Clair de Lune a great piece of music? Not really, but they are all sentimental favorites. So it is with Cyrano de Bergerac. Both the play and its hero are more than a trifle silly. Yet this poet-duelist ham who boasts of besting 100 men in a single encounter has proved endearing...