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...Woodward, Carl Bernstein, John Sirica, Sam Ervin, Archibald Cox, Leon Jaworski, Peter Rodino--two months ago, they too probably thought that ending Nixon's public career was the best thing they ever did. But now there are rumblings of another Nixon resurrection, as improbable as his climb from the humiliating loss to Brown in 1962 to the presidency in 1968. Most of the noise seems to be coming from San Clemente, but it bears monitoring, given Nixon's uncanny ability to worm his way back into the public's good graces after suffering through devastating scandals...
Whether Nixon's doctors will agree with this is not at all certain. Many of the lawyers preparing for the Washington trial assume that medical reasons will be found to keep Nixon from having to respond to subpoenas from both Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski and one of the defendants, John Ehrlichman. But with jury selection expected to take at least a week and the prosecution needing ample time to begin laying out its case, the issue does not have to be immediately joined. Particularly from the prosecution's viewpoint, Nixon's testimony is far from critical...
...trial strategy emerges, Jaworski and his top assistant handling the case, James Neal, have overwhelming evidence that there was a conspiracy to obstruct justice in an attempt to conceal the origins of the Watergate wiretap-burglary. The Nixon tapes provide devastating evidence. The chief defense tactic apparently will thus be to challenge the validity of those tapes and try to force the prosecution and Judge John J. Sirica into technical errors that could lead to a successful appeal of any conviction...
...President insisted that reports of Nixon's ill health were not a major factor ("I was more anxious to heal the nation"). He conceded that new negotiations were under way with Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski on the controversial arrangement under which Nixon would retain effective control of his tapes and presidential papers. As for the pardon, however, "there was no understanding, no deal, between me and the former President." Ford admitted that "the decision has created more antagonism than I anticipated...
...first shocked reaction to Ford's deal with Nixon, there were some too-hasty proposals. One was that the Watergate grand jury be asked to go ahead and investigate and indict Nixon despite the pardon. Jaworski promptly and properly rejected that. Another was that Congress revive the impeachment proceedings and complete the formal record of Nixon's wrongdoing as President. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino just as promptly and properly dismissed that notion. Both ideas are flawed because they would involve employing constitutional processes for purposes other than the ones for which they were intended. The approaches...