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...contemplated the ruination of his presidency last week, the Richard Nixon displayed on the transcripts was surely musing on the legal liabilities he might face whenever he again becomes a private citizen. The range of possible difficulties is formidable. While Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski was able to persuade a grand jury that it could not indict a sitting President, his arguments do not apply to a former President. And if the President is impeached and convicted, the Constitution explicitly notes that criminal charges can still be brought...
...effort to impeach the President are those of March 21 and 27, 1973. TIME has learned that it was the March 21 tape of an Oval Office meeting of Nixon, Dean and Haldeman that prompted the Watergate grand jury to recommend the President's indictment for conspiracy. Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski dissuaded the jurors, arguing that it was questionable whether an incumbent President can in fact be indicted, that the recourse against a President is impeachment. Jaworski also warned that if the Supreme Court were to rule that the grand jury had exceeded its authority in going after the President...
Which brings us to President Bok, the humblest president Harvard has. He's nearly always radiant. And Senator Charles Percy (R-Ill.) wanted him to be the special Watergate prosecutor, so he must be terrific. When you come to think about it, his stands on controversial issues are rather nice-looking. But they happen about as often as Radcliffe loses at tennis, so they're sometimes hard to remember. Bok's 1972 statement about Portuguese colonialism was one of the best and most recent examples--Bok probably wasn't used to his job yet, so the statement was pretty...
Only minutes after Nixon has expressed his fears to Petersen, the prosecutor returns for yet another meeting and assures the President that there are no specifics to the Dean charges. Nixon tells Ziegler to kill any budding newspaper story on the subject and "kill...
Three days later, what gets out is Nixon's announcement that Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean and Kleindienst have resigned, that Elliot Richardson is being appointed Attorney General with authority to name a special prosecutor and that he, the President, takes full responsibility for what has happened. Nixon also recalls that at his second inaugural he gave each Cabinet member and senior White House staffer a special four-year calendar marked to show how many days remained in his Administration. It began with 1,461, and on the day he delivers the speech, he says, "It showed exactly 1,361 days remaining...