Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quit working." He said that it reminded him of the old lawyer who advised a young colleague: "When the facts of law are against you, give somebody hell." Ohio Governor John J. Gilligan slyly noted that in Nixon's discussion of the confidentiality that exists between lawyer and client and between husband and wife, the President "stopped short of [mentioning] the relationship between psychiatrist and patient-which his top staff went out of their way to violate." Ralph Nader disliked the speech; so did the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, the newly re-elected head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference...
...John Wayne. All the "friends" got in return was an engraved presidential plaque, a personally autographed picture of Nixon, one cocktail party at the Western White House, and unlimited San Clemente golfing rights when the President is not in residence. "It's good for business to take a client out and suggest we hit a few on the President's course," admits one donor. Yet the course may be the least-used links in the country. Its guest book records only 330 visitors-among them David and Julie Eisenhower. Course Designer Gene Stoddard laments that nowadays only three...
...home." A young lawyer raised in New York City observes, "In New York, when you wanted a deposition from the other side in a lawsuit, you had to go through a heavy exchange of letters. Here I just pick up the phone and say, 'George, I need your client's deposition. Can we get together Wednesday?' So we do it then. No correspondence. No hassle." As Keating says, "There is a hell of a lot of mutual trust...
Mindful of the fact that Wilson has had at least two private meetings with President Nixon, some wonder if the attorney might not have, perhaps unofficially, a secret third client. One legal observer argues that "the only way Nixon can be sure his former aides will not implicate him is to have one lawyer coordinating their testimony, not two lawyers each battling for the interests of his client." Attorney Joseph L. Rauh, a former national chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, more bluntly charges Wilson with being "the go-between to keep their stories straight." Says Wilson himself...
...speaks up," said an admiring Washington attorney. "He's had Ervin off on a lot of tangents and byways." A lawyer who is "thorough to an annoying fault," according to one of his partners, Wilson confidently barged into the fray-to sidetrack a questioner, to give his client a chance to gather his resources, and usually in the real hope of making a point or barring the question. Sample exchange after Ervin asked himself a rhetorical question...