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...appellate division of the New York State Supreme Court disbarred the former President from legal practice in that state. In a 4-to-l opinion, the tribunal found that Nixon had: 1) obstructed justice by impeding an FBI investigation into the Watergate burglary-bugging; 2) interfered with Daniel Ellsberg's legal defense against charges arising from his publication of the Pentagon Papers; 3) attempted to obstruct a Justice Department investigation into the burglary of the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist, Lewis Fielding; 4) concealed evidence of unlawful activities by his White House and campaign staffs; and 5) approved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: Still More Pain for the Nixons | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

...expense and expanse of the trial point up a growing anomaly of justice in the U.S. Angela Davis' trial cost California $1.2 million. Daniel Ellsberg's federal prosecution tab has been estimated at as much as $3.5 million. The Patty Hearst extravaganza cost at least $480,000 in Federal Government funds, plus whatever the Hearsts themselves paid. Joan Little's supporters had to raise a $300,000 defense fund, while the state of North Carolina spent at least as much. "The irony is that you have criticism of these expensive and prolonged trials; on the other hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Longest Trial | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

...strictly adhering to a psychobiographical analysis, she denies the frame of reference provided by the Pentagon Papers, and their interpreters. A far more logical explanation for some of Johnson's moves--the desire to stave off a defeat through stalemate until the next election, put forward by Daniel Ellsberg in his 1971 essay "The Quagmire Myth and Stalemate Machine"--is totally ignored...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: A Bedtime Story | 6/4/1976 | See Source »

...Ellsberg's essay he warns us to be aware of the Townsend Hoopes's and the Goodwins (Richard Goodwin, speech-writer for Johnson, now husband of Kearns who helped her write the book), former officials under LBJ who try to "objectively judge" the Johnsonian presidency with respect to the war, but end up underwriting "the deceits that have served importantly a sucession of Presidents to maintain support" for the immoral intervention in Vietnam...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: A Bedtime Story | 6/4/1976 | See Source »

...logical conclusion of all this is S.M. Lipset's piece, the most bizarre in the collection, which finds a peculiar American streak of moralism at fault in most political conflicts of this century--Joe McCarthy's witch-hunts, Vietnam demonstrators, Daniel Ellsberg and Nixon are examples of the perception of politics as "a struggle between good and evil forces rather than as a series of collective bargaining issues." Hopefully, Lipset writes, the two-party system will absorb and then compromise the moralistic passions of the present-day Left and Right--the worst since the early 20s--as the parties have...

Author: By Jim Kaplan, | Title: King Mob | 3/2/1976 | See Source »

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