Word: garments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rehearsing Testimony. The courtroom scene turned tense again when Rhyne was allowed to question Buzhardt. He established that neither Buzhardt nor White House Attorney Leonard Garment had actually represented Miss Woods at her first court appearance, but were representing the President. Garment interjected to agree. Then Rhyne said flatly that Garment and another White House counsel, Samuel Powers, "had spent hours rehearsing her on her testimony." Garment immediately objected to the term "rehearsing" ?and Sirica called all the attorneys to confer for some 25 minutes at his bench. Without explanation, Buzhardt then was excused from the stand...
...animosity between attorneys was evident throughout the week's hearings. Rhyne seemed strangely friendly with Prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste, who had interrogated Buzhardt. Several times when Garment or Buzhardt raised objections, Rhyne, seated at a table apart from them, muttered: "Those sons of bitches." Just what the estrangement means in terms of Miss Woods' relationship with the President in the whole tapes tangle was not yet clear. But she obviously was not taking the rap for the full obliteration of the Haldeman tape as it apparently had been assumed she would...
...their dead daughter. But they sense danger, too. They tell Baxter that his life is in peril while he remains in Venice. He does not believe them, but he is bothered by strange presentiments, and by the persistent reappearance of a small figure in a hooded red raincoat-the garment his daughter was wearing when she drowned...
...White House Counsel Leonard Garment has maintained that 36 other memos requested by the consumer groups and the deleted portions of those being held by the court are "central to the decision-making process by the President and his staff" and are thus protected by Executive privilege. Among them are memos on Nixon's face-to-face meeting with the milk executives...
...wife having died on the voyage, Christian lands a job with the mortician who buries her. The mortician is impressed by Christian's good looks. On one of his first assignments for the funeral parlor, Christian is willingly seduced by Fanny Sourpuss, the young widow of an old multimillionaire garment manufacturer. Sued by the widow of a rich corpse that Christian has butchered in the embalming, he wins the suit by charming judge and jury. Women, including cafeteria acquaintances and wives of coworkers, fall at his feet. Christian is the parody of the fairy tale hero, lusting after fallen princesses...