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...typically skittering from Shakespeare to the Bible, North Carolina's Democratic Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. was stepping up the rapidly accelerating tempo in a showdown over secrecy between the U.S. Senate and President Nixon. If the President will not allow his aides to testify publicly and under oath before the Select Senate Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, Ervin vows, he will seek to have them arrested...
Testifying under oath before a select Senate committee, McCord implicated an impressive list of people in the Watergate affair. The list included former Attorney General John Mitchell, who headed the Nixon committee at the time of the Watergate arrests; H.R. Haldeman, the President's White House chief of staff; John Dean III, Nixon's chief legal counsel; Charles Colson, a former Nixon counsel; and Jeb Stuart Magruder, a former White House aide and deputy director of the re-election committee who is now an assistant to the Secretary of Commerce. McCord, who faces up to 45 years...
...counsel. In a rambling opening statement he told the jury, "Truth is the eye of the storm and I myself no more than a raindrop looking for a fertile place to fall." He never directly answered the charges or appeared as a witness under oath, and the chief defense contention seemed to be only that the defendants had all been innocent bystanders. The jury deliberated for three days and convicted all four of the robbery and assault on one policeman. But the jurors were hopelessly deadlocked on the attempted murder charge because they were unable to decide on the issue...
...case. They want to determine whether officials of either the company or the Government-or both-had perjured themselves during any of the various hearings. Among other things, the FBI will presumably investigate seeming discrepancies in the testimony of John Mitchell. Last spring the former Attorney General testified under oath that he had never discussed with Nixon any antitrust case in the Justice Department. Yet ITT documents suggest that Mitchell had conveyed to ITT executives what they took to be the substance of talks he had had with the President on their case. Mitchell has claimed that he was simply...
...Miles' appearance was a star turn. Alternately sobbing and indignant, she seemed to transfix the courtroom spectators and the seven-person jury. Justice of the Peace Mulford Winsor IV, a plumber when he is not sitting on the bench, was so unnerved that he had to start the oath twice...