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...President's speech was followed a day later by a 50-page legal brief by his attorney, James St. Clair. It attempted to argue the best case possible for the President by seeking to discredit the testimony of former White House Counsel John Dean against Nixon and by pointing up parts of the transcript that show the President in the best light. "In all the thousands of words spoken," it says, "even though they are often unclear and ambiguous, not once does it appear that the President of the U.S. was engaged in a criminal plot to obstruct justice...
...broad, a fishing expedition that called for enough material to fill a U-Haul trailer. Not until several days before the committee's formal subpoena of the recordings on April 11 did Nixon order aides to locate and transcribe the tapes. Last week, at Presidential Counsel James St. Clair's request, the committee extended its deadline by five days. "Having gone the last mile [with Nixon]," Chairman Peter Rodino explained, "we want to accommodate him with this one last request...
...them by hand. The tapes were reportedly sometimes almost inaudible, requiring hours of tedious replaying to decipher the conversations and identities of the speakers. Said one associate: "Fred's ears have fallen beneath his collar at this point." After studying each of the transcripts and consulting with St. Clair, Buzhardt turned them over to Nixon. Aides assumed that the President, in reviewing the transcripts, was insisting that non-Watergate matters be excised, as well as his frequent obscenities, in preparing texts to be handed over to the Judiciary Committee...
...that the blitz probably would include a prime-time television speech. In addition, White House Speechwriter Ray Price worked all week on a White Paper to explain Nixon's reasons for not turning the tapes over to the committee. Senior presidential aides-among them Dean Burch and St. Clair-were offered to television networks for interviews this week...
Nixon and his counsel, James D. St. Clair, say the 1258 pages of edited Watergate tape transcripts the White House turned over to the Committee in lieu of the 42 subpoenaed tapes will "provide grist for many sensational stories" but make it "totally and abundantly clear" that the president did not "act improperly in the Watergate matter...