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After receiving the sensational Colson plea, the sharp-tongued Judge Gesell turned to the tense situation created by Ehrlichman's efforts to gain access to his personal White House files for his defense in the Ellsberg burglary case. Gesell had threatened to dismiss the charges against Ehrlichman if any ev idence held by the White House was denied him. On Monday, St. Clair had agreed that Ehrlichman, his attorney William Frates and a stenographer could see the files...
...publication of the Pentagon papers in the Washington Post in 1971, but sided with Nixon in ruling that the Senate Watergate committee had not shown a sufficient need for presidential tape recordings to override Nixon's claim of Executive privilege. If he cites Nixon for contempt in the Ellsberg case, Gesell, 63, may become as well known as his father, the late child psychologist and pediatrician Arnold Gesell...
Nixon and his fascists almost made him paranoid. Wiretapping, attempts to defame Daniel Ellsberg, lying, secret bombing--it almost made him glad to be at Harvard. Almost. He thought he might feel better if he knew who his enemies were...
...group issued its analysis before reports that the federal grand jury investigating the Ellsberg break-in had named the president as a co-conspirator. "What we said was in fact rather mild in light of what happened," Chayes said yesterday...
...April 1973, President Nixon was looking for a new, permanent FBI director. He improperly offered the job to Federal Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr., who was then presiding over the trial of Daniel Ellsberg and refused to discuss it. Last week it became known that Nixon made the same unethical proposition at around the same time to Assistant Attorney General Henry E. Petersen, who was then in charge of the Watergate investigation...