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Their countenances-and hence their reactions to the evidence placed before them-have for the most part remained stonily unreadable. John Hoffar, 57, a retired police superintendent and the jury's only white male, generally remains stolidly poker-faced but smiled broadly once, as Prosecutor James Neal vigorously questioned H.R. Haldeman...
First up was Chief Prosecutor James F. Neal, who put on a virtuoso performance, weaving together the myriad strands of evidence into a cohesive case that the five former political associates of Richard Nixon conspired to cover up the facts of the Watergate bugging and burglary. His voice rising and falling and his arms chopping the air for emphasis, Neal described an illegal cabal "on a massive scale by the highest officials of the land," involving perjury and the payment of nearly $500,000 to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars. He concluded: "One red cent paid to keep...
Times of Trouble. The apparent impact of Neal's summation so distressed one defense attorney that he asked a reporter only half facetiously: "Could you hear the prison doors clanking shut?" Nonetheless, the defense lawyer, John J. Wilson, was no less impassioned in attacking the Government's chief witnesses, Jeb Stuart Magruder and John Dean. Wilson described Magruder as a "professional liar" and Dean as a "mastermind of chicanery, of monkey business, of flouting the law, of having no conscience." The defense attorney dismissed the White House tapes as having recorded nothing worse than the sort of talk...
...told confessed Conspirator John Dean to "deep-six" a briefcase containing some electronic gear found in Burglar E. Howard Hunt's White House safe. But he could not explain why he did not even tell the Watergate grand jury that this equipment had been found. Instead, according to Neal, Ehrlichman had answered "I don't recall" to 125 questions before the grand jury...
Again came Neal's mocking question: "Now, you wanted to get the truth out, Mr. Ehrlichman...