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...Nixon had hurt rather than helped his survival chances and that he must surrender all "relevant" evidence to the Rodino committee. One of Nixon's most vocal supporters, Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott, has also privately warned Nixon through the President's chief Watergate counsel, James St. Clair, that the President must yield all relevant evidence...
...rising congressional impeachment pressure could not be ignored, and Nixon gave up some tactical territory. He and St. Clair had for so long resisted a request by Jaworski for 27 tapes and various documents that the special prosecutor finally issued a subpoena to get some of the documents. St. Clair first asked last Monday for a delay in the subpoena's return date, and Jaworski agreed. As the new deadline approached on Friday, Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler offhandedly announced without explanation that the subpoenaed evidence would be surrendered. The documents, dealing primarily with the use and possible abuse...
...Clair did manage, however, to provoke a partisan split within the committee. He argued that he must be allowed to be present and to cross-examine any witnesses whom the committee calls as it attempts to determine what charges, if any, to lodge against the President. Disputing St. Clair's argument, Rodino contended that his committee's investigation is not a trial or an adversary proceeding; it is akin to a fact-finding grand jury probe in which potential defendants are not represented by counsel because no one has yet been charged. Yet Republicans on the committee...
...committee leaders hope to reach a compromise with St. Clair. They are willing to discard the idea of taking depositions. Instead, the staff would interview witnesses, who would not be under oath but would be asked to sign their statements. Since these would be less formal than depositions, no cross-examination would be appropriate. Whether committee Republicans will accept that proposal is still in doubt...
There also is evidence that while Presidential Lawyer James St. Clair's intricate legal tactics of delay and noncooperation may be admirable for a normal defendant in a courtroom, they are devastating to the President of the U.S. The longer that Nixon is kept from some kind of legal reckoning or due process of law, the more impossible it is for people to grant him that most ancient and widely hailed of all juridical rights-the presumption of innocence until proved guilty. One thing that emerges from studying those polls is that most Americans are concluding that Nixon...