Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House of Representatives with growing partisan bitterness. Two weeks ago, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, New Jersey Democrat Peter Rodino, announced that the committee would attempt to speed its impeachment hearings by calling only two of the six witnesses requested by the President's defense lawyer, James St. Clair. Last week Rodino reversed himself and said that all six would be called. He made this conciliatory gesture in return for a concession from House Republicans: their support in suspending a House rule that gives each of the committee's members the right to question witnesses...
...People of the United States v. Richard Nixon, a mildly entertaining courtroom drama, is having a brief preview run at the Supreme Court this week before moving across the street to bigger and better things in the House of Representative. James St. Clair stars as the slippery lawyer who tries to clear the path for executive dictatorship. Leon Jaworski is, for the first time in his life, cast in the role of the hero. I know how this one ends, but I won't tell you because I don't want to spoil the suspense...
...fire CIA Director William Colby and have the agency investigated. But White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig and Henry Kissinger supposedly talked him out of it. (The one fact that Colson later denied was that Nixon had intended to dismiss Colby.) Colson surmised that Haig and White House Lawyer J. Fred Buzhardt worked incognito for the CIA and that maybe Kissinger did too. The President was prevented from acting by the disloyal people around him; his phone, Colson believed, was even tapped by the CIA so that the agency could follow his every move. "The President is scared...
...three-and 2,000 other investors from show business, sports, politics, the law, business and banking-succumbed to the inspired salesmanship of an Oklahoma lawyer named Robert S. Trippet. By last summer, when he resigned one step ahead of a barrage of civil suits and a criminal investigation, Trippet sold $130 million worth of subscriptions in oil-drilling funds. Trippet denies charges that he handled the money illegally, but when asked how much oil he has found, he replies cryptically: "That's relative." In any case, his Tulsa-based Home-Stake Production Co. (no relation to Homestake Mining...
...reporters working on the story from the beginning?and their publishers?declined to be cowed or bluffed. Thus the Post revealed in July 1972 that C.R.P. money had gone to one of the burglars. The New York Times reported that funds had been "laundered" through a Mexican lawyer. The Post disclosed that the break-in had been part of a larger intelligence-gathering effort and named those who controlled the program's funding. The Los Angeles Times got an exclusive interview with Alfred C. Baldwin, the ex-FBI agent who had monitored C.R.P.'s tap on Democratic telephones. TIME described...