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Cooling Hotheads. A few of the more volatile members of the committee almost jumped at St. Clair's bait. Such liberal Democrats as Father Robert Drinan of Massachusetts, California's Jerome Waldie and Michigan's John Conyers Jr. wanted immediately to issue subpoenas for every bit of evidence that Doar was seeking. But Chairman Rodino called a caucus of the committee's Democrats and urged the hotheads to cool off. There would be plenty of time to issue subpoenas, he argued, once the White House intention to cut off all further evidence was totally clear. Meanwhile, the committee staff...
...definition. Each member will have to subjectively determine this in his own mind." Hogan contended that Nixon was getting "bum advice" and was in danger of losing those on the committee "who are trying to keep an open mind on impeachment." The release of the Doar letter to St. Clair, protested Texas Democrat Jack Brooks, was "an affront to the comity between the White House and the Congress." But he urged his colleagues on the committee not to let "the White House hucksterism detract from the decency and forbearance of the committee. It is clear that the White House...
Rebutting St. Clair's demand that the committee state its charges against Nixon before it seeks more evidence, Republican Edward Hutchinson argued: "There are no charges. We hope we will find none. We are simply making an inquiry." Added Hutchinson: "What we have asked for is very reasonable and very
...long after he finished Harvard Law School, James Draper St. Clair made his reputation as a superbly skilled trial lawyer in a 1954 dispute-over cranberries. His client, Cape Cod Food Products, Inc., sued the National Cranberry Association, now Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., charging attempted monopoly. Typically, St. Clair not only immersed himself in the legal issues but also diligently learned everything about cranberries, including how weather and flooding affect them. In court he meticulously demolished the association's case. St. Clair won treble damages of $525,000 for his client and rare praise in court from Judge Charles...
Over the years St. Clair, now 53, has handled hundreds of civil and criminal cases with similar success and aplomb as a partner in the prestigious Boston firm of Hale and Dorr. Thus when White House Chief of Staff Alexander M. Haig began looking late last year for a trial lawyer to represent the President, he found that "Jim was high on everybody's list." On Dec. 31 St. Clair resigned the private practice that earned him about $300,000 a year in order to take the $42,500 federally paid job as Nixon's chief Watergate counsel...