Word: clairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WASHINGTON--It was after 7 p.m. and James D. St. Clair, President Nixon's defense lawyer, had not yet returned to his office. This had been another long and frustrating day for him--sitting behind closed doors with the House Judiciary Committee, watching the evidence against his client pile...
...room 188 1/2 of the Old Executive Office Building, St. Clair's secretary was typing letters on White House stationery; in a back room, members of his staff watched their boss on television as he arrived on Capitol Hill that morning...
...Fred Buzhardt, Counsel to the President, glided through the door in a cream-colored suit. "He's not back yet?" Buzhardt asked St. Clair's secretary. He paced the gold carpet of the outer office, puffing gingerly on a cigarette. "They oughta call us and let us know if they want a rescue team...
Buzhardt is an authority on rescue teams. He and Leonard Garment comprised Nixon's Watergate rescue team until they were rescued by University of Texas professor Charles Alan Wright, who was rescued by Boston trial lawyer James Draper St. Clair. But it is unlikely that St. Clair will need rescuing. Since he began working for Nixon last January 2, St. Clair has won the President much-needed time, using a strategy of delay, diversion and denial. Nixon might be impeached and convicted, but he will not be able to claim incompetence of counsel. In fact, some believe that...
Soon afterwards, St. Clair wearily shuffled in--short, dumpy, exhausted. When St. Clair smiles, he looks sly and devious--it is a homely smile (there is a large gap between his front teeth), a mocking smile, and he looks remarkably like the "Silver Fox" for which he is nicknamed. But St. Clair was not smiling as he entered. He deposited a briefcase in his private office, then dropped himself deep into a chair at a small conference table and gave a long, loud sigh. He looked more like a wounded bear...