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...Sirica hearings centered mainly on the other missing tape,* one that was believed to have been made of a conversation on April 15, 1973 between Nixon and his fired former counsel, John Dean. In that talk, Dean has testified, Nixon admitted he had been "foolish" in discussing Executive clemency for E. Howard Hunt in exchange for his silence. He had also said, according to Dean, that his previous assurance that it would be easy to raise $1,000,000 for silence money for the arrested men was intended only as a joke. That, as Dean saw it, meant that Nixon...
...strategy was a bit off in all the games today," Carlsson explained afterwards. "In Miss Therrien's particular case, Rick played her too fast which is conducive to a lot of costly, foolish errors...
...tape of the 55-minute Nixon-Dean conversation is considered vital by the Watergate special prosecution staff because Dean has testified that during the April 15 meeting Nixon said he was probably foolish to discuss an offer of executive clemency for convicted conspirator E. Howard Hunt...
Offered a chance for a seat on the California Supreme Court when Brown was Governor, Ball decided that he preferred the style and combat of a trial lawyer. Though he loves a fight, he never pushes, as one judge puts it, with "foolish, unnecessary objections." Nor will he tolerate unethical behavior. He once had a doctor client who had performed a criminal abortion and wanted to testify that he had never seen the woman involved. Ball refused to let the doctor lie on the witness stand-but got him acquitted anyway. "Look," he says, "I'm neither judge...
...plan will be based on the controversial Kraus plan which was introduced last year, Peter S. McKinney, administrative dean of the GSAS, said Thursday. "We thought it was foolish to begin with a new point of view," he said...