Word: clairs
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...documents from the ex-President. Nevertheless, the Jaworski team demonstrated that it had more than a casual interest in the 950 reels of taped Nixon conversations still locked up in the Executive Office Building. Among their final official acts, Nixon's chief Watergate defense lawyers, James St. Clair and J. Fred Buzhardt, advised Ford's staff that under past precedent, the tapes were the personal property of the former President. Ford's press secretary, J.F. terHorst, announced that Nixon would be able to dispose of them as he wished...
...Then St. Clair revealed some of the same lack of political awareness that has marked the President's own flawed self-defense. "Before this," he told the Senate leaders, "we had the case won." "Where?" asked the incredulous Scott. "I mean as a lawyer," St. Clair replied. To a man, the Senate leaders-Scott, Griffin, Texas' John Tower, Utah's Wallace Bennett and New Hampshire's Norris Cotton-were stunned by the evidence of Nixon's deception. "We were shaken," said one of them. "It's the worst thing...
Some day history may rank them as special heroes, emerging out of a shadowy world of anguish that now we can only begin to comprehend. Alexander Haig, the President's chief of staff, who, with deep care and sensitivity, midwifed the political death of Richard Nixon. James St. Clair, reviled by many when he went before the Supreme Court and the Congress, who finally recognized there was no defense of the President and told him so. Henry Kissinger, who came into Nixon's orbit of power as the lone outsider, but who in the end was comforter, friend...
Haig, St. Clair and their few allies walked on eggs through the last weekend at Camp David, responding instead of telling, implying more than explaining. With his family gathered around him, all of whom wanted to fight it out, Nixon still did not believe that beyond the White House cocoon the world had turned so hard against...
...former President will have to get a new lawyer. Even before the resignation was formally filed, James St. Clair announced that he no longer represented Nixon, though at Ford's behest he will stay on at the White House temporarily to supervise the indexing of papers and tapes still under subpoena. The new Nixon attorney will be needed immediately. The cover-up trial of John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman et al. is due to start in three weeks, and should the former President be a witness, he ought to have the advice of a fully informed lawyer before...