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...Sirica urged the Government's prosecutors to put certain Nixon officials "under oath in the grand jury room." At least one, former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, had been permitted by the prosecution to submit a sworn statement to the grand jury in lieu of testifying. "I am still not satisfied that all of the pertinent facts have been produced before an American jury," Sirica declared. He reminded the prosecutors of a list of persons he wanted them to question again...
...Jersey bar, I wish you to know that when I am in the presence of a Watergate discussion, I am proud and stand high, knowing that our Judicial Branch of the Government, through you, has saved our form of government from disaster. Your dedication to duty and to your oath of office, irrespective of the grave consequences that had to follow, have earned for you the everlasting gratitude of the bench and the bar of this country...
...confrontation with the Guard, possibly touching off its firing-squad response. Norman, now an employee of the Washington, D.C., police department, has denied that he used a gun on the day of the shooting, and the FBI denies that he worked for it; but Norman has never explained under oath why he was acting as a photographer...
...mystery. The new President was a relatively unknown army officer, Lieut. General Phaedon Gizikis (who was promoted to full general three days after the coup). But he did not seem to be a particularly forceful figure; in fact he went out of his way to announce, after taking the oath of office, that "I have no personal ambition." The new Cabinet was composed of civilian rightists who had been rounded up quickly after the takeover; some were unknowns and some were has-beens...
...name of freedom, the Sons of Liberty mobbed him and all but destroyed his presses. Rivington rolled up his fine cambric sleeves and went on printing. When the Revolutionary War finally broke out, Rivington was arrested and forced on pain of permanent prison to sign a loyalty oath to our young and proudly free nation. Broken at last, he did, and died a bookseller in New York...