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Charles R. Nesson '60, professor of Law, who defended Daniel Ellsberg '52 in the Pentagon papers trial, said yesterday that he has received requests for assistance from lawyers representing both former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and E. Howard Hunt...
Nesson said that he supplied the attorneys with information on motions made in Ellsberg's defense as a matter of professional courtesy since the briefs he gave them are now a matter of public record...
With a total of 47 Nobel peace prize nominees, including such divergent figures as Yugoslavian President Josip Broz Tito, Richard Nixon and Viet Nam War Critic Daniel Ellsberg, any decision was bound to be controversial. But the selection last week of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese Chief Negotiator Le DuC Tho for their efforts in attaining a cease-fire in Viet Nam aroused an unprecedented storm of criticism...
...attorney is crusty, conservative John J. Wilson, 72, who took some of the heat off his client by lecturing Senate Watergate probers as if they were first-year law students. In Los Angeles, where Ehrlichman is charged with perjury and complicity in the office break-in of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, he has retained equally feisty Joseph A. Ball, 70. But Ball is no conservative; his selection by Ehrlichman is eloquent testimony to the fact that litigation, like politics, makes strange bedfellows...
...dedicated liberal, Ball was the original lawyer for Anthony Russo, Ellsberg's co-defendant in the Pentagon papers case. He has strongly supported such opponents of Ehrlichman's old boss as George McGovern and Eugene McCarthy. He also regards President Nixon's least favorite Chief Justice, Earl Warren, as "the greatest American of our age-perhaps of any age." So why Ball? "There's no mystery," says another Nixon foe, former California Governor Pat Brown. "Ehrlichman needed the best...