Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MacNeil's credit, four weeks ago he predicted accurately that from 25 to 29 Congressmen on the committee would vote for impeachment. Similarly, Correspondent David Beckwith, our Washington bureau's lawyer-in-residence who covers the Supreme Court, reported for our July 22 cover story that the court would probably try to rule unanimously-despite its division on some of the issues -in the case of the President's tapes, an assessment that last week proved right on the mark. Beckwith customarily interviews scholars, fellow lawyers and "anyone else with good information about the court...
Jordan (referred to as "the gentlelady" by Rodino) noted that the President was not being deprived of any information or due process. His lawyer James St. Clair had been permitted to sit through all the committee hearings on the evidence, receive all the documents given committee members, and cross-examine witnesses. "That was due process," she said. "Due process tri pled, due process quadrupled." The Nixon loyalists, she charged, were using "phantom arguments, bottomless arguments...
Reinecke's lawyer, James E. Cox, acknowledged that his client was "a big dummy" who may have made a "mistake" under oath. Assistant Special Prosecutor Richard J. Davis used a harsher term. Said he: "Reinecke deliberately lied for one reason-to protect the still very powerful John Mitchell, a man who could help him become Governor." Reinecke, who will appeal the verdict, faces a maximum term of five years and a fine...
...intention of seeking immunity. I just knew I couldn't go on. My lawyer told me: "You don't have to run into machine guns to get this done." He also told me he was worried that I might find myself in the river with cement blocks tied to my feet...
...Because I feared the effect on the country and the world. And I wondered if anyone would take my word-a young lawyer-against the President of the United States. I thought, in fact, I could do it in a way that would not involve the President. But I found within a month I could...