Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some important occasions, of course, the court has left no doubt about where it stands. It has struck down state laws barring abortion, for instance, and extended the guarantee of counsel to persons accused of misdemeanors that carry a jail term (previously the guarantee was for felony defendants only). The court unanimously rejected the Administration's claim of authority to install wiretaps without warrants in domestic national-security investigations...
...first four witnesses who testified before the committee in closed session last week had all been requested by the President's special counsel, James St. Clair. His aim has been to narrow the grounds for impeachment by maintaining to the committee that it must establish a direct link between Nixon and a criminal offense: in this case, the payment of hush money to Convicted Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt on March 21, 1973. Accordingly, he wanted the witnesses to declare that Nixon had not specifically ordered the payment of the $75,000 to Hunt. But no witness remembered...
...Presidential Lawyer James St. Clair, it is the only portion of the massive document that attempts to draw specific conclusions. St. Clair cites Senate Watergate testimony by H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell that the President had no knowledge of the burglary or the coverup. The defense counsel's main focus, however, is on the crucial $75,000 payment to E. Howard Hunt, one of the convicted Watergate conspirators. St. Clair argues that the transcript of the meeting that Nixon held with White House Counsel John Dean on March 21, 1973, "clearly demonstrates that the President recognizes that...
...testifying that you were aware of that and you had conversations with the President about the possibilities of Executive clemency for these people, and you just omitted to tell the President that the general counsel for the finance committee [Liddy] had admitted to Dean that it was his operation...
...Dictabelt, Nixon placed much of the blame for the whole Watergate imbroglio on Charles Colson, who had recently resigned as White House special counsel. "Apparently what happened is that Colson, with Liddy and Hunt in his office, called Magruder and told him in February to get off his ass and start doing something about, uh, setting up some kind of an operation . . . Colson was always pushing terribly hard for action, and in this instance, uh, pushed so hard that, uh, Liddy et al following their natural inclinations, uh, went, uh, the extra step which got them into serious trouble...