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...letter to Mississippi Senator James O. Eastland, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jaworski complained that his request for 27 tapes of specific presidential meetings and telephone calls had been denied by Nixon even though "there was no indication that any requested recording is either irrelevant to our inquiries or subject to some particularized (presidential) privilege." While grand juries can proceed without these tapes, Jaworski wrote, "the material is important to a complete and thorough investigation and may contain evidence necessary for any future trials." Jaworski reported that he had promised Nixon's chief Watergate counsel, James St. Clair...
Unless Nixon reverses himself, the impasse apparently can be broken only by court order. Jaworski plans to proceed with the Watergate cover-up indictments, then subpoena the Nixon tapes before the trials begin. If Nixon ignores the subpoenas or challenges them in court, another legal battle would follow-a fight similar to two that former Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox had won before Nixon fired him. Some of the White House evidence sought by Jaworski also relates to Nixon's former team of secret investigators ("the plumbers") and his dealings with milk producers, who contributed large sums...
Missing Papers. In his letter Jaworski hinted at another problem in gaining White House evidence. He noted that "we have reason to believe that there are additional documents somewhere in the White House files"-papers that Nixon's attorneys claim never existed. TIME has learned that some Watergate witnesses have described such documents and that they have disappeared from a vault in the Executive Office Building where they were stored...
Later, apparently concerned about Jaworski's complaint, the White House tried to blur the fact that the President and the Special Prosecutor were on a collision course over Watergate evidence...
Presidential Counsel St. Clair issued a statement arguing that to give more materials to Jaworski would result in "delaying grand jury deliberations many months." St. Clair did not explain how additional evidence would slow, rather than speed indictments. The statement did, however, fit the current presidential defense strategy, which is to push publicly for a fast end to the many Watergate investigations, while acting privately to stall and delay any quick resolution of Nixon's own fate. The President's hope apparently is that a Watergate-weary public will lose all interest in the sorry affair...