Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the original Watergate break-in trial, only one defendant, Dwight Chapin, has been prosecuted all the way to a guilty verdict (he was convicted of perjury). Meanwhile, one by one, Frederick LaRue, Jeb Magruder, Donald Segretti, John Dean, Egil Krogh, Herbert Porter, Herbert Kalmbach, Richard Kleindienst and Charles Colson...
Higher-Ups. Embarrassed prosecutors blame Hart's leniency for most of the uproar which has prompted more and more questions about all Watergate plea bargains. The practice itself is little admired but long established in the U.S. judicial system, where it is used mainly to reduce the number of...
So far, so good. But just how hard has Jaworski's office been bargaining? Both Krogh and Colson were apparently allowed to enter pleas without first telling the prosecutors what they know. Recalling the deals he made as a federal prosecutor, Columbia Law Professor Abraham Sofaer says, "I always...
"Fulbright gave respectability to the dissent," says Senator Frank Church, a committee member. Just as Fulbright's hearings clearly helped get the U.S. out of Viet Nam, his pleas over the years for realism and compromise contributed to the foundations of detente and Nixon's visits to Moscow...
More Immune. It is scandalous to Mrs. Shaw (Katherine Squire) that Andrew (Stanley Anderson), the firebrand, should have ditched his law career to be come an abstract painter. Why has Steven (Philip Charles MacKenzie), the youngest, with his odd, pervasive silence, quit work on his incisive book about modern society...