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LEONARD BOUDIN, attorney for Daniel Ellsberg '52 in the Pentagon Papers case and professional champion of unpopular causes, admits he was "amused a little bit" when he read a profile of himself prepared for the White House three years ago by E. Howard Hunt and released last week by the House Judiciary Committee. If you don't take the whole thing too seriously, the profile, written with the intent of discrediting Ellsberg and Boudin in the press, is more than just a little amusing. With a title like "Devil's Advocate" and subheadings to the tune of "The Strange Affinities...
Charles R. Nesson '60, professor of Law and another of Ellsberg's attorneys, agrees that there are still some people who will look for Reds under their beds if government officials tell them to. If that's the case, The Times may well have been more careful about the way it handled the Hunt memorandum. As Nesson points out, "The profile was defaming when it was written, it was defaming when Colson tried to circulate it in the press, and it was still defaming when The Times printed...
...Selective Memory." The case against Ehrlichman for lying was, if anything, even more solidly supported. In testimony to a Watergate grand jury and to the FBI he had denied any involvement in various stages of the Ellsberg operation. But several memos indicated that he had not told the truth. Throughout the trial, he demonstrated what Prosecutor Merrill called a "selective memory": he had no trouble recalling episodes that might help his defense, but forgot incidents that might damage...
...that confidence. I look forward to complete exoneration." But his options have been sharply limited. For all his surface composure he may soon be persuaded that he can no longer hang tough and stonewall. He still faces two more trials: one in California for perjury in connection with the Ellsberg case, one in Washington for his role in the Watergate coverup. With the prospect of receiving stiff sentences from unsympathetic judges, he may choose to start telling more of what he knows about Watergate. If he does make a deal, he might topple some other top White House dominoes...
...convicts named Otis D. Wilkerson (alias Robert Nathan Jones), 24, and Frank Gorham Jr., 25, were brought from the Washington, D.C., jail to the U.S. district courthouse to confer with their lawyer. Coincidentally, John D. Ehrlichman and three other defendants were on trial for their roles in the Ellsberg break-in on the second floor of the building. After a conference with their attorney, the two men, both of whom were serving lengthy sentences on charges ranging from armed robbery to conspiracy to kidnap, were returned to their cells in the basement. A short time later, Gorham reached through...