Word: clairs
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...White House tape recordings from Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. The President on May 6 and 7 had listened to some of those tapes and abandoned a proposed compromise under which he would turn twelve of them over to Jaworski. He did not tell his chief Watergate lawyer James St. Clair that those tapes would destroy his professions of innocence in the cover-up conspiracy. Instead, Nixon allowed St. Clair to carry a claim of absolute Executive privilege to the Supreme Court and to argue before the House Judiciary Committee that the President was unaware of that cover-up until informed...
Incredibly, St. Clair had taken on the job of defending the President with out any assurance that he would have access to all of the evidence.* But just two days after the Supreme Court decision, St. Clair was jolted into a full awareness of his responsibilities by Federal Judge John J. Sirica, whose judicial inquisitiveness has played a pivotal role in unraveling the Watergate deceptions. "Have you personally listened to the tapes?" Sirica asked St. Clair in court, well aware from news reports that St. Clair had not. "You mean to say the President wouldn't approve of your...
...battle in Judiciary began as a confrontation between lawyers. James D. St. Clair spoke for the president in the proceedings. John Doar served as the majority counsel for the committee and slowly but surely prepared a case against the president...
Asked by Assistant Special Prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste on Tuesday whether any tape segments were missing, St. Clair told Sirica: "Not to my knowledge, Your Honor." Then Ben-Veniste pointed out that a White House transcript of the President's April 17, 1973, meeting with Ehrlichman and Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman ended at 4:35 p.m. while St. Clair had told the court that the reel of tape was "removed full" at 4:20 p.m. After checking, St. Clair reported to Sirica that five minutes and twelve seconds of the 45-minute conversation had not been recorded because...
...clear and convincing." This standard falls between the difficult one of "beyond a reasonable doubt" used in criminal trials and the easier "preponderance of the evidence" standard established for civil cases. It was applied by the House Judiciary Committee after, ironically enough, being proposed by Presidential Counsel James St. Clair. But Republicans, led by Minority Leader Scott, favored "beyond a reasonable doubt," feeling that "clear and convincing...