Word: plea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Plea for the Yankee Mules...
Little Leverage. Unless Congress recommends otherwise or Ford intervenes with a pardon (although a pardon before an indictment apparently is unprecedented), Nixon's most probable trial role may well be as a defendant. He conceivably could attempt to plea bargain with Jaworski, although he has little leverage remaining for that purpose, considering the evidence against him already on record and the fact that there is no higher official that Jaworski could seek to indict. Only a detailed admission of guilt, including his cover-up activities relating to such defendants as Ehrlichman, Haldeman and John Mitchell, would be likely...
...make a "deal" with the former President would be a breach of faith with the future. The American people have had enough secret deals and plea bargaining. There must be no more deals. Now I think we have to go back to Harry Truman's statement, "The buck stops here," and apply it to the prosecutors and the courts. If any deals are made with the ex-President, I fear that much of our agony has been in vain...
...said that he knew of one harassed official, but would not name him. He further speculated that Jake Jacobsen, the lawyer implicated in the milk deal, may have undergone coercion, but he had no supporting facts. By "bribes," Safire meant the lenient treatment given some Watergate suspects - not that plea bargain ing is unique to Watergate. As to the timing of Connally's indictment, Safire seemed unaware of an important point: Jaworski's office had delayed the proceeding a full week so as not to mar the wedding of Connally's son Mark...
...least one ranking official of the Administration-not a member of the White House staff-concluded grimly last week that Richard Nixon should be thinking less about impeachment than about a sort of plea-bargaining at the very highest level. This official suggested to TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey that the President should tell Vice President Gerald Ford that he is prepared to resign provided Ford would grant him an Executive pardon for any subsequent criminal indictments. Assuming that such a procedure would be politically and legally acceptable (and this is by no means certain), it would assure Nixon that...