Word: obstructive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trial strategy emerges, Jaworski and his top assistant handling the case, James Neal, have overwhelming evidence that there was a conspiracy to obstruct justice in an attempt to conceal the origins of the Watergate wiretap-burglary. The Nixon tapes provide devastating evidence. The chief defense tactic apparently will thus be to challenge the validity of those tapes and try to force the prosecution and Judge John J. Sirica into technical errors that could lead to a successful appeal of any conviction...
...Nixon's authority to pardon him self before leaving office, had been widely discussed, so it seemed unlikely that Ford was all that unaware of his authority. Jaworski, moreover, was not poised to throw the book at Nixon. He was prepared to seek a single indictment for conspiring to obstruct justice in the cover-up?but not until the conspiracy-trial jury had been selected and sequestered. To the contrary, Jaworski had submitted to the White House, at Buchen's request, a memo from his top deputy, Henry S. Ruth Jr., citing ten other areas of in vestigation of Nixon...
...subpoena from Ehrlichman marked a sharp break in longtime cooperative defense strategy between Ehrlichman and Nixon's other former top aide, H.R. Haldeman. Both had previously denied any attempt to obstruct justice by impeding the Watergate investigation. The devastating June 23, 1972, transcripts of talks between Nixon and Haldeman, however, clearly show that Nixon and Haldeman had used the CIA to impede the FBI probe. TIME has learned that Ehrlichman, who also talked to both CIA and FBI officials at the same time, wants his lawyers to question Nixon about the precise instructions the President had given him. Ehrlichman...
...Stuart Magruder, 39, was accompanied by the Rev. Louis Evans Jr., of Washington's National Presbyterian Church, when he was sentenced in May for conspiring to obstruct justice. Last year after the Watergate affair had begun to unravel, Magruder joined one of the intimate "covenant" groups that Evans had started in order to feed the "spiritual hunger" in Washington. Jeb's wife Gail joined another (also attended by Mark Hatfield's wife Antoinette). The groups are small-typically only a dozen people who bind themselves to each other through eight principles or covenants. The principles include...
...least, that would make the committee unanimously in favor of sending Nixon to trial in the Senate. Barely controlling his emotions, Wiggins read a statement saying that the new facts were "legally sufficient in my opinion to sustain at least one count against the President of conspiracy to obstruct justice." It was time, he added, for "the President, the Vice President, the Chief Justice and the leaders of the House and Senate together in the White House to discuss the orderly transition of power from Richard Nixon to Gerald Ford...