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...absence of journalistic pressure. Certainly the initial prosecution, resulting in the indictment of only the five burglars plus E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, was limited to the point of farce. The tape transcripts show that the White House hoped these indictments would defuse any accusations of a coverup. Now a total of 18 important participants in the scandals have either pleaded guilty or been convicted by juries. Three of these men are now being tried on additional charges while seven others who maintain their innocence must still face verdicts...
...press did during the initial phase of Watergate, in addition to giving snapshots of truth to its audience, was serve in effect as a surrogate public agency, filling a void created by official misfeasance and nonfeasance. The continuing press coverage helped create a momentum that eventually overwhelmed the coverup...
Rodino's aim has been to lay out all of the major allegations of presidential misconduct to determine whether there is an overall pattern of impeachable activity. "Is there a relationship among these things?" Rodino asks, meaning such matters as the Watergate coverup, the ITT and milk deals, the underpayment of taxes by Nixon, the Ellsberg burglary and other "plumber" activities, the secret bombing and the spurning of subpoenas. "Is there a connection between him and them?" The question, Rodino suggests, is "whether there was a serious abuse of power, a failure to faithfully execute the laws, scandal...
...typical day, the committee plowed through three 250-page notebooks. There were 14 books dealing with the Watergate break-in and coverup, three for the ITT scandal (presented entirely by Jenner), three for the milk-fund case and 16 for other matters like campaign dirty tricks and Nixon's taxes. Occasionally members donned earphones to listen to one of the 19 presidential tapes obtained...
...Sirica that the President must honor Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's subpoena for 64 tapes. St. Clair petitioned the Supreme Court to consider as part of that case whether a grand jury had the authority to name the President as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate coverup, as it had secretly voted to do last Feb. 25, and, if so, whether it had acted on the basis of sufficient evidence. He also asked Judge Sirica to forward the grand jury proceedings both to the Supreme Court and to himself-but not necessarily to the public-to prepare...