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...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...
Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, says that the St. Clair Stonewall--trying to delay a Supreme Court ruling on the tapes, refusing to cooperate with federal Judge Gerhardt A. Gesell in the "plumbers" trial, hoping to limit the scope of the House impeachment inquiry--gives the impression that Nixon has something to hide...