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...Charles ("Bebe") Rebozo, the President's close friend. That matter, Nixon firmly declared, was off limits. But the matter did not die with the departure of Cox. It was pursued by a dogged, four-man team of investigators from the Senate Watergate committee under the direction of Terry Lenzner, 34, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in New York City and a onetime member of the Berrigan brothers' defense team...
...they were given their first dramatic break early in April when Herbert Kalmbach, the President's personal attorney, testified before the committee. Kalmbach was not exactly a willing witness; he refused to divulge details of conversations he had held with Rebozo because of their lawyer-client relationship. But Lenzner, with the approval of Chairman Sam Ervin, pressured him into changing his mind...
...investigator told him that Rebozo had denied that Kalmbach was his attorney. Thus Kalmbach was no longer bound by the lawyer-client privilege. There is some dispute whether Rebozo had said any such thing. "Lenzner twisted the record and twisted statements to leave the completely wrong impression," says Rebozo's Miami attorney, William S. Prates, who also is John Ehrlichman's lawyer. "He was terribly devious in the way he went about it." Whether tricked into his testimony or not, Kalmbach was the most useful witness for the committee since John Dean...
...crossexamination, Lenzner stumbled across a curious bit of detail as Moore described a private meeting with the President on April 19, 1973. At this meeting, Moore told Nixon that Dean had shown him a list of White House staff members who Dean believed could be indicted for one Watergate offense or another. In the case of Ehrlichman, however, Moore repeated Dean's remark that Ehrlichman's "problem might be involved with the Ellsberg case," a proposition that Moore did not understand at the time...
...interested in electing ideologues to the Board, just young, bright, good-thinking people like Lenzner," Christian concluded. Lanzner is a former director of legal services for the Office of Economic Opportunity...