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...Congress prepared for its late summer recess, it was obvious that the lawmakers had no intention of offering any advice on the question of immunity for Nixon, at least until national sentiment has cooled and crystallized. That shifted the burden, perhaps unfairly, to Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, who is charged with investigating and prosecuting all Watergate-related crimes. Understandably, he was in no hurry to make that decision. Yet it was widely believed among legal experts in Washington and indeed within his own staff that Jaworski had no choice: the evidence of criminal activity by the former President is sufficient...
...Jaworski, his most immediate problem was how to mesh any action against Nixon with the impending Watergate cover-up conspiracy trial of six former Nixon aides. The special prosecutor moved last week to gain more time to study that situation by agreeing with most of the defendants that the trial should be delayed. While the defendants pleaded for postponement because of the massive publicity generated by Nixon's resignation, Jaworski based his concurrence on the need to analyze the 55 tape recordings of White House conversations that Federal Judge John J. Sirica is turning over to Jaworski under orders...
Before the trial is held, Jaworski will have to decide how to treat Nixon, whether as a defense witness, a prosecution witness or defendant. The grand jury that only named Nixon an unindicted co-conspirator because of doubts that a sitting President could be indicted can reconvene at any time to indict Citizen Nixon. A decision of some sort is inevitable since one defendant, John Ehrlichman, last week issued a subpoena for Nixon's testimony at the trial. Accompanying the subpoena, which presumably will be served on Nixon at San Clemente this week, was a check...
Little Leverage. Unless Congress recommends otherwise or Ford intervenes with a pardon (although a pardon before an indictment apparently is unprecedented), Nixon's most probable trial role may well be as a defendant. He conceivably could attempt to plea bargain with Jaworski, 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...
...most political leaders and observers, Democratic as well as Republican, seemed disinclined to press the matter last week. Elliot Richardson suggested that an informal agreement between the leadership of Congress, the Attorney General and Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski could be the basis of an understanding on which "the President could rely, even though it wouldn't have the force...