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...States." Alch said he replied that he "was not interested in any vendettas against the President." But questioning from the committee forced Alch to admit that some of his statements to McCord might have made McCord suspicious that he was working with the White House to get a guilty plea...
...second overlookquot; on the George Washington Memorial Parkway along the Potomac. They talked in Caulfield's car. This was after McCord's Watergate trial had got under way. Caulfield said he had an offer to grant Executive clemency to McCord if he would change his plea to guilty and remain silent. The offer, said Caulfield, was quot;from the very highest levels of the White House.quot; He added that Nixon had been told of Caulfield's impending meeting with McCord and would be immediately informed of the outcome. Then Caulfield put in the zinger: quot...
...crowd continued to make noise when Cox resumed his plea. "If this meeting is disrupted--hateful as some of us may find it--then liberty will have died a little and those guilty of disruption will have done inestimable damage to the cause of humanity and peace...
Worst of all, the show seems to be dating badly. Maybe the idea of rewriting Romeo and Juliet as a plea for ethnic tolerance seemed more startling in the '50s than it does now. Maybe putting a gang of Puerto Ricans and a gang of non-Puerto Ricans on the stage and letting them slug it out in a ballet had more impact then. (Maybe Jerome Robbins's choreography was better than this production's, I suppose.) In any event, as a showstopping obscenity, "mother-loving" just doesn't make it any more...
INSANITY. To end "the present absurd use of the insanity defense," no plea on the defendant's mental state would be permitted at trial except the contention that he did not know what he was doing -"for example, whether the defendant knew he was pulling the trigger of a gun." If the jury decided that he had actually committed a crime, the convicted defendant could then introduce broad evidence on his sanity so that the judge could decide whether he should be imprisoned or sent to a mental institution...