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...Clair took two other steps to strengthen Nixon's pending Supreme Court arguments against an order by Federal Judge John J. Sirica that the President must honor Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's subpoena for 64 tapes. St. Clair petitioned the Supreme Court to consider as part of that case whether a grand jury had the authority to name the President as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate coverup, as it had secretly voted to do last Feb. 25, and, if so, whether it had acted on the basis of sufficient evidence. He also asked Judge Sirica...
...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 have all made bargains with the special prosecutor's office and pleaded guilty to reduced offenses. If nothing else, their pleas have raised doubts among both civil libertarians and law-and-order hardliners: Were the deals really necessary...
...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 made sure what the evidence was. The individual involved has to become an ally of the Government in all respects...
Former Attorney General Richard Kleindienst-the first Cabinet alumnus since 1929 to be convicted of a crime -stood solemnly before Federal Judge George L. Hart Jr. in Washington. In an unusually lenient deal with Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, Kleindienst had been allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of having failed to testify fully at his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Now he was to be sentenced...
...Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski wants the Supreme Court to require the President to supply 64 specific tapes considered relevant to the Watergate investigation. The President contends that his refusal to hand over the tapes on the ground of Executive privilege transcends the needs of the criminal process. Besides, says White House Counsel James St. Clair, the court should not even consider that question because Nixon is the country's chief law-enforcement officer, head of the Executive household and ultimately Jaworski's boss. As such, St. Clair explains, the President has final authority to settle what is essentially...