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...currently jailed or awaiting trial for Watergate-related offenses (see story page 19). Said John J. Wilson, counsel for one of the six men who are scheduled to go on trial in Washington on Sept. 30 on charges of conspiring to cover up the Watergate burglary: "Bob Haldeman should be pardoned...
Most immediately affected will be the six men facing trial on Sept. 30 for their roles in the Watergate cover-up-John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman, John Mitchell, Kenneth Parkinson, Gordon Strachan and Robert Mardian. Many lawyers felt, in the aftermath of Ford's announcement, that the President had given a big boost to the defense...
...most important reforms, Ford plans to abolish the job of White House chief of staff. The post was used by H.R. Haldeman, with Nixon's approval, to dominate the staff and bar the door of the Oval Office to all but a favored few. General Alexander Haig Jr., the present holder of the job, replaced Haldeman's officiousness with diplomacy, but still retained enormous powers over the workings of the White House. Such a power center has no place in Ford's thinking. As Secretary Morton points out, the title itself connotes "some sort of overlord...
...assistant President. He could, for example, mediate disputes among members of the Cabinet. Under Nixon, such conflicts were handled by White House aides, and Cabinet members often bristled at being ordered around by H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. If Ford really aims to restore the power and prestige of Cabinet officers, it would help to have his No. 2 adjudicating Cabinet differences and assisting in making interdepartmental policy. Rockefeller, moreover, is uniquely equipped by his experience in state government to serve as the Administration's primary contact with state and local officials. If Ford can manage to make...
...although he has little leverage remaining for that purpose, considering the evidence against him already on record and the fact that there is no higher official that Jaworski could seek to indict. Only a detailed admission of guilt, including his cover-up activities relating to such defendants as Ehrlichman, Haldeman and John Mitchell, would be likely to impress Jaworski. The penalty Nixon would then have to pay presumably would be up to Judge Sirica, although President Ford could of course pardon him after any judicial action...