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...Nixon pardon immensely complicated Federal Judge John J. Sirica's task of selecting a jury in the conspiracy trial of five Nixon associates, chief among them H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell. Defense attorneys often argue that pretrial publicity may prejudice jurors against their clients; in this case, the pardon created sympathy for the defendants. Many prospective jurors expressed doubts that Nixon's men should be convicted if their leader escaped trial...
Short Leash. Once the jury was chosen, Judge Sirica unsealed a number of previously submitted defense motions calling for Nixon's testimony at the trial. In their motions, both Haldeman and Ehrlichman contended that they had urged Nixon, in unrecorded conversations, to tell the full truth of Watergate rather than conceal it. That runs counter to their prevailing advice as expressed in published White House tape transcripts. Sirica is expected to reveal this week what he intends to do about the claim of Nixon's lawyers that he is too ill to testify. Sirica can appoint other doctors...
...Haldeman, Nixon's chief of staff, tried to shift him to a smaller office, he resisted: "Listen, I didn't resign a first-class seat in Congress to take a second-class office in the White House." Now he has Haldeman's office, though without the title and imperial trappings...
...defendants in a Washington federal courtroom, separated by a vacant chair-and a frosty silence. For 45 awkward, painful minutes, during a courtroom lull in the jury selection process, John Ehrlichman, baggy-eyed and subdued, bent purposefully over a yellow legal pad. The normally dour H.R. Haldeman, his crew cut turned sleekly long, glanced tentatively at his onetime friend, but got no encouragement. Before stepping out to smoke his pipe, a pale, drawn, considerably older-looking John Mitchell, 61, had sat aloof. Once the nation's chief law enforcer as Attorney General, he now faced criminal charges...
...Apart. Certain to become one of the most celebrated trials in U.S. history, the Watergate conspiracy case poignantly dramatized how far this once triumphant trio had fallen-and how far apart they have grown. As Nixon's former chief of staff, Haldeman had a great deal to do with Ehrlichman's emergence as the Administration's domestic-policy boss. Now Ehrlichman's lawyers were expected to claim that Haldeman had worked deviously with Nixon to mislead their client about some of the 45 overt acts cited by the prosecution as part of a conspiracy to "commit...