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While Sirica scowled at Buzhardt and obviously struggled to conceal his irritation, the President's lawyer claimed that "the phenomena occurs during the course of the conversation-that is, not at the beginning or end"-between Nixon and his former chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, on July 20, 1972. This was just three days after five men were arrested during the wiretap-burglary of Democratic National Committee headquarters. It was also after Haldeman and another former aide, John Ehrlichman, had been briefed on the arrests by then Presidential Counsel John Dean...
...object so much. He could still call the plays. He could keep the press out of the locker room. He could work up intricate line maneuvers to conceal his offenses...
...McInally's antics conceal a sensitive interior. He says, "I respect serious, quiet people like Jimmy Stoeckel. But I don't want to burden people with my problems, I'd rather give them delight...
...forced to hide every time Mrs. Prentice enters the room. Mrs. Prentice discovers and confiscates Miss Barclay's dress so that the latter is forced to remain in hiding. The bellboy hides when Dr. Prentice enters and Dr. Prentice--appearing crazier and crazier as the evening progresses--endeavors to conceal Miss Barclay, her underwear and his own true motives and actions...
...concedes that a President can keep confidential military and diplomatic secrets and policy deliberations, but he insists that a President has "no absolute and arbitrary power" to conceal "evidence of criminality." Moreover, because "there is strong reason to believe the integrity of the Executive office has been corrupted," the President cannot be an impartial judge of whether the public interest requires him to keep the tapes secret. That determination, the prosecutor argues, can be made only by the courts. He adds: "The evidence on the tapes also may be material to public accusations against the respondent [Nixon] himself, a question...