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Contrite Tone. One thing was certain: the guilty plea was Colson's own idea. Despite some possibility that the original case against him would be dismissed, Colson late last month had his attorney, David Shapiro, call Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski to make a deal. Shapiro was reluctant but went ahead. On Friday, May 31, Jaworski wrote a letter to Shapiro outlining the sort of plea he would accept. It would, he insisted, have to be a felony, and there would have to be an understanding that Colson would later testify in all areas of the Watergate case. Late into...
Former Attorney General Richard Kleindienst-the first Cabinet alumnus since 1929 to be convicted of a crime -stood solemnly before Federal Judge George L. Hart Jr. in Washington. In an unusually lenient deal with Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, Kleindienst had been allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of having failed to testify fully at his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Now he was to be sentenced...
Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski wants the Supreme Court to require the President to supply 64 specific tapes considered relevant to the Watergate investigation. The President contends that his refusal to hand over the tapes on the ground of Executive privilege transcends the needs of the criminal process. Besides, says White House Counsel James St. Clair, the court should not even consider that question because Nixon is the country's chief law-enforcement officer, head of the Executive household and ultimately Jaworski's boss. As such, St. Clair explains, the President has final authority to settle what is essentially...
...cannot interpret the law to suit his own needs, politics, even judgments. The power of the President in legal matters is the power of dismissal, not the power of superseding his legal judgment for that of the Attorney General." That power could thus be used to fire Jaworski if the President were willing to face the consequences...
...officer and the substitution of one more worthy in his place" was the best solution. In other words, prosecutors have authority all their own; the President may not exercise that authority himself but can influence it through his hiring and firing power. The Clark-Taney view would therefore support Jaworski's right to sue until and unless he is removed from office...