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Adopted in an emotional closed meeting, the committee's list of certain witnesses includes two urged by James St. Clair, Nixon's chief Watergate defense lawyer. They are former Presidential Counsel John Dean and Frederick LaRue, a Nixon campaign aide who has pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice...
Omitted from the list but cited as potential witnesses were four men also requested by St. Clair: former Attorney General John Mitchell; former White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman; William O. Bittman, former lawyer for convicted Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt; and Paul L. O'Brien, a lawyer...
Later in the week the short upward zig in Nixon's survival prospects flattened out somewhat when Charles W. Colson, the President's former counsel and chief White House political operative, was sentenced to prison for obstruction of justice-and said in court that he had committed the...
Surprisingly, no individuals, not even lawyers, are generally required to report crimes that have been committed (as opposed to crimes in preparation); only if they actually tamper with evidence are they vulnerable to charges of obstruction of justice. Under U.S. law, an attorney's sacred trust belongs to his...
There are additional difficulties resulting from the President's stance as chief law enforcer. One important example: Did mounting his own investigation when he heard about the cover-up meet Nixon's responsibility? Scott Bice, associate dean of the University of Southern California law school, argues that "there...