Word: claire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take Nixon's case? For fame, perhaps, but not for money (St. Clair gave up a practice reportedly worth $300,000 a year to become Nixon's lawyer for an annual salary of $42,500.) Also, St. Clair says he believes in making his counsel available to whomever most needs it. On that principle, he helped Joseph N. Welch battle Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the televised Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954; he helped the Boston School Department fight enforced racial balance; he argued against film censorship. Rev. William Sloane Coffin, whom St. Clair defended against charges of conspiracy to violate...
...considered that a compliment," St. Clair said in an interview last week. Is it a compliment when applied to his handling of Nixon's case, too? "Positively," he said. "These gentlemen don't need causists. They need someone to represent them with some objectivity." The following are excerpts from that interview...
...Clair's 3D strategy--delay, diversion, denial--means that he will concede nothing. Instead, he tries to put everything in its broadest possible perspective, glossing over specific evidence of Nixon's cover-up role by saying that Nixon's knew blackmail could not work, that "you don't have to be a genius" to know that...
Meanwhile, St. Clair is fighting demands for more tapes and other evidence, possibly hoping to delay things long enough to reduce some of the impeachment fervor...
Undoubtedly, these tactics constitute good legal maneuvering, the sort that St. Clair has taught each spring since 1956 to a Harvard Law School class on trial practice. But given the unique status of St. Clair's client, are these tactics wise...