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...Judiciary Committee, Jaworski complained that his request for 27 tapes of specific presidential meetings and telephone calls had been denied by Nixon even though "there was no indication that any requested recording is either irrelevant to our inquiries or subject to some particularized (presidential) privilege." While grand juries can proceed without these tapes, Jaworski wrote, "the material is important to a complete and thorough investigation and may contain evidence necessary for any future trials." Jaworski reported that he had promised Nixon's chief Watergate counsel, James St. Clair, that these unfulfilled requests completed his list of documents wanted...
Unless Nixon reverses himself, the impasse apparently can be broken only by court order. Jaworski plans to proceed with the Watergate cover-up indictments, then subpoena the Nixon tapes before the trials begin. If Nixon ignores the subpoenas or challenges them in court, another legal battle would follow-a fight similar to two that former Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox had won before Nixon fired him. Some of the White House evidence sought by Jaworski also relates to Nixon's former team of secret investigators ("the plumbers") and his dealings with milk producers, who contributed large sums...
...considerable feeling, Nixon then addressed himself to "the so-called Watergate affair." He seemed to be saying that he had cooperated long enough with Special Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. Said Nixon: "I believe that I have provided all the material that he needs to conclude his investigations and to proceed to prosecute the guilty and to clear the innocent." The investigations must end, Nixon declared. "One year of Watergate is enough...
...minute era sure in one tape had, in effect, been made deliberately. In doing so, St. Clair argued that these experts should not be permitted to examine the other tapes given to the court as originally agreed by both sides. Sirica withheld judgment on whether the experts should proceed to examine these tapes; yet the White House nervousness about such an examination added new doubts about the integrity of the remaining recordings...
Clapp, Sexton, and Robert Kaneda '75 signed the statement, but only the first two will proceed with the matter...