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...Court. The still-unresolved question is how Nixon will be treated in that trial. He has been summoned as a defense witness by Ehrlichman, but could conceivably plead the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination in that role. His lawyers could argue that, while federal prosecution has been banned by the pardon, state prosecution is still possible. That is highly unlikely and such a Nixon plea would be shaky, since the trial questions need not delve into any Nixon activities other than the cover-up conspiracy. Nixon could also be summoned as a prosecution witness and be granted specific immunity...
Nixon has been subpoenaed as a witness at the trial and perhaps may be called to testify in others. Legal experts believe that, for the most part, the pardon ended his right to refuse to testify on the grounds of selfincrimination. He can now plead that Fifth Amendment right only if his answers could be used against him in some future state prosecution, which seems to be a rather remote possibility. Thus, scholars like-Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz expect "a gushing forth" of new evidence about Watergate from the trials...
Though they plead innocent to any bias toward either Turkey or Greece, even Washington officials admit in retrospect to some blunders in the Cyprus affair. Others credit them with even more. The first mistake was not taking sufficiently seriously reports in May that the Athens dictatorship was going to move against Makarios. The State Department sent a warning to Ioannides while Kissinger and former President Nixon were in Moscow in June, and it thought that the message had been taken to heart and the anti-Makarios movement dropped. Washington claims to have been as surprised as Makarios by the July...
Senator Edward Kennedy, co-sponsor of the bill, was angry enough to take a dramatic step. He filed suit against the Administration in U.S. District Court in Washington and then argued the case himself on the assumption that nobody could plead for Congress more persuasively than one of its members. Nixon, he charged, had made "promiscuous use" of the pocket veto. In the past, most measures that had been vetoed in this fashion were usually not vital to the national welfare. But Kennedy considered his own bill to be a major undertaking. In addition, Nixon had vetoed the bill...
...Methodist who had started attending the church only weeks before, heard the Rev. Richard Halverson, Washington's best-known evangelical preacher, talk about the power of Satan that tempted leaders to play God. The next week, when approached by White House Aide John Caulfield, McCord refused to plead guilty and remain silent...