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...other two defendants seemed almost incidental. Robert Mardian, a top Mitchell aide at both the Justice Department and on Nixon's 1972 re-election committee, warmly shook hands with his former boss. Kenneth W. Parkinson, who had been merely an attorney for the Nixon committee, sat apart from the others on a front-row bench, almost as a spectator. Federal Judge John J. Sirica had separated the case of a sixth defendant, Gordon Strachan, because of legal complications caused by previous grants of immunity...
Most immediately affected will be the six men facing trial on Sept. 30 for their roles in the Watergate cover-up-John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman, John Mitchell, Kenneth Parkinson, Gordon Strachan and Robert Mardian. Many lawyers felt, in the aftermath of Ford's announcement, that the President had given a big boost to the defense...
...Judiciary Committee's evidence details for the first time the frantic efforts by the White House to keep the wiretap data secret. On July 12, 1971, the President ordered Robert Mardian, then Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Internal Security Division, to get the data from William Sullivan at the FBI. According to FBI interviews of Mardian, he showed the materials to Kissinger, Haldeman and Alexander Haig, Kissinger's assistant. Then, he says, he delivered the files to the Oval Office. Mardian was asked: "Did you give the bag [containing the wiretap files] to Mr. Nixon, the President...
...Mardian's answer, which implies that the President indeed saw the wiretap transcripts, could have an important bearing on the impeachment case. Reason: the evidence suggests, though it does not prove, a crucial connection between the wiretap records and the then ongoing trial of Daniel Ellsberg. The evidence shows that 15 conversations between Ellsberg and Halperin were included in the two boxes of wiretap data on Ellsberg. When William Matthew Byrne Jr., the judge in Ellsberg's trial, learned of the wiretaps and was advised of the break-in at the office of Dr. Lewis Fielding, Ellsberg's psychiatrist...
...Mardian, LaRue...