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...Parkinson is in greatest difficulty over a Nov. 14, 1972 memo that Howard Hunt, one of the original defendants, sent to Hunt's former lawyer, William Bittman, and which Hunt claims Bittman read to Parkinson. Among other things, it baldly stated that all the defendants had received assurances of pardons and support money in return for "maintaining silence." Bittman, who had repeatedly denied ever seeing such a memo, reluctantly produced a copy one day after his former law partners advised him that they would reveal its existence to the prosecutors. That vindicated Hunt's testimony and makes Bittman...
...jury and grinned as he heard his own high-pitched laughter played back in a rare moment of taped levity. John Mitchell, the former Attorney General, listened casually through one earphone, as if he wanted to hear as little as possible. The others, John Ehrlichman, Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson, were somber...
Pure As Snow. In opening statements, attorneys for Ehrlichman, Mardian and Parkinson made no attempt to deny that there had been a high-level White House coverup. Instead, they argued variously that their clients had been duped by those above them or that their Watergate involvement was insignificant. David Bress, the attorney for Mardian, claimed that Mitchell, 61, had developed "a sort of father-and-son relationship with Mardian," who is 51. Thus Mardian, former head of the Justice Department's Internal Security Division, was misled by Mitchell. "Mardian was as pure as a driven snow," Bress argued...
...defense lawyers are sure to argue that the former President is vital to their case. Neal must also persuade jurors that Nixon's pardon is no reason to let his former aides go free. The two lesser defendants, former Assistant Attorney General Robert Mardian and C.R.P. Attorney Kenneth Parkinson, will probably claim that they had limited roles and a lack of knowledge about what was really going on. John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman and John Enrlich-man appear to be in much weaker positions, especially if their attorneys fail to block introduction of the tapes. But at every opportunity their...
...other two defendants seemed almost incidental. Robert Mardian, a top Mitchell aide at both the Justice Department and on Nixon's 1972 re-election committee, warmly shook hands with his former boss. Kenneth W. Parkinson, who had been merely an attorney for the Nixon committee, sat apart from the others on a front-row bench, almost as a spectator. Federal Judge John J. Sirica had separated the case of a sixth defendant, Gordon Strachan, because of legal complications caused by previous grants of immunity...