Word: plead
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...election drive. It was financed with secret campaign funds, contributed in cash by anonymous donors and never fully accounted for, in violation of the law. Then, after the arrests of seven men in the Watergate breakin, the same funds were used to persuade most of them to plead guilty and keep quiet about any higher involvement...
...newsmen to explain the President's statement, White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said that March 21 was about the time that convicted Wiretapper James McCord wrote a celebrated letter to Judge Sirica. In it, McCord charged that unnamed officials had brought pressure on the arrested burglars to plead guilty, and that persons not yet indicted had been involved in the conspiracy. But Ziegler could not detail what kind of new investigation Nixon had made on his own. Justice Department sources also said that they were unaware of any new presidential inquiry. As late as March 26, in fact, Nixon...
Shortly after this holy hootenanny, local ecclesiastical authorities begin to be nasty to the Franciscans, killing one of the brothers. St. Francis and his friends promptly go to Rome, where they plead their case before Pope Innocent III (Alec Guinness). The Pope is moved by their presence to ruminate aloud: "In our obsession with original sin, we forget about original grace." Zeffirelli apparently has forgotten about both...
...letter, written without his lawyers' knowledge, McCord charged that "there was political pressure applied to the defendants to plead guilty and remain silent." Five of the defendants, not including McCord, had done so. McCord also claimed that "perjury occurred during the trial in matters highly material to the very structure, orientation and impact of the Government's case." Moreover, he wrote, "others involved in the Watergate operation were not identified during the trial, when they could have been by those testifying...
Some Senators said that they will recall Gray to testify further this week. They will also ask White House Counsel Dean to appear, though Nixon has already said that he would plead the right of Executive privilege to keep him from testifying...