Word: claire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...requesting and suggesting pictures. "TIME'S photographers," says Durniak, "are seeking in their subjects glances and gestures-visual facts-that add information-not decoration-to the text." For this week's cover story Pulitzer Prizewinning Photographer David Hume Kennerly shot 14 rolls of film of James St. Clair to produce the photos that appear in the magazine; one became the cover portrait...
...Sparring. But then he pulled some taut strings- on it. The President said that he would not allow anyone "to cart everything that is in the White House down to a committee and to have them paw through it on a fishing expedition." Next day his lawyer, James St. Clair, sent a letter to the committee rejecting its request for evidence beyond what Jaworski had acquired. St. Clair complained that the committee seemed to be asking for "hundreds of thousands of documents and thousands of hours of recorded conversations covering the widest variety of subjects." He suggested that the committee...
...Clair argument is that a President can be impeached only for crimes of "a very serious nature committed in one's governmental capacity." He refuses to detail what acts that definition would either embrace or exclude. Apparently, however, it would exclude the President's income tax problems, which are nongovernmental, and any campaign-funding violations, because running for office is not an official duty. Some top Washington lawyers consider St. Clair's contention to be merely legalistic sparring with the Rodino committee, which will in no way be limited by any White House definition...
...subject to some particularized (presidential) privilege." While grand juries can proceed without these tapes, Jaworski wrote, "the material is important to a complete and thorough investigation and may contain evidence necessary for any future trials." Jaworski reported that he had promised Nixon's chief Watergate counsel, James St. Clair, that these unfulfilled requests completed his list of documents wanted in his pretrial investigation, but he was nevertheless rebuffed by the White House...
Presidential Counsel St. Clair issued a statement arguing that to give more materials to Jaworski would result in "delaying grand jury deliberations many months." St. Clair did not explain how additional evidence would slow, rather than speed indictments. The statement did, however, fit the current presidential defense strategy, which is to push publicly for a fast end to the many Watergate investigations, while acting privately to stall and delay any quick resolution of Nixon's own fate. The President's hope apparently is that a Watergate-weary public will lose all interest in the sorry affair...