Word: jaworskis
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Assistant Special Prosecutor Philip Lacevara said in court Wednesday that the material includes "an index which lists events involving the President which the grand jury found may be important or pertinent to the inquiry." The court's decision came just hours after Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski announced that he had subpoenaed additional documents from the White House...
...grand jury had enough information to issue indictments in the coverup. But the Jaworski staff is still seeking tapes and memos about a variety of White House activities, including Nixon's relations with large campaign contributors, notably the milk producers and persons seeking ambassadorial posts. The prosecutors also want copies of Nixon's daily news summaries, on which he is known to have written instructions on Watergate developments, and files known to have been kept by Ehrlichman on the work of the President's secret group of investigators, called the plumbers...
...plead self-incrimination." They had testified "freely," he said, and they had not sought immunity or engaged in "plea bargaining" with prosecutors. Actually, Colson had declared that he would take the Fifth Amendment if called before the Senate Watergate committee. Ehrlichman's lawyers did plea bargain but rejected Jaworski's final offer. Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Mitchell may have testified freely, but according to the grand jury indictments, they did so falsely...
...minute meeting was attended by Nixon and his former counsel, John Dean. Also present for about 40 minutes was H.R. Haldeman, Nixon's former chief of staff. The conversation was secretly recorded by Nixon and, despite strenuous White House resistance, the tape was acquired by Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. After listening to it, a federal grand jury two weeks ago indicted Haldeman for perjury growing out of his Senate Watergate testimony about the conversation. By implication, Nixon also stood accused of having lied to the American people because his version of the conversation closely paralleled Haldeman...
...leaks from all sides in Watergate, that the news profession dearly loves exposes and scoops, and that the heat of competition sometimes melts good judgment. Last week, for instance, the Washington Star-News disclosed a private communication from Sirica to his fellow judges in which he mentioned Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's confidential estimate of the number of indictments to come. Though newsworthy, the story also intruded on grand jury privacy while adding nothing substantive to the public's knowledge of Watergate...