Word: prosecutors
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...easily handled soft questions from a largely friendly gathering of some 2,000 members and guests of the Executives' Club of Chicago. He implied that he will not comply with the Judiciary Committee's request for White House tapes and documents beyond those already turned over to Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. With much exaggeration, Nixon complained that the committee wanted "all of the tapes of every presidential conversation?a fishing license or a complete right to go through all of the presidential files." He said that "it isn't the question that the President has something to hide...
Assistant Special Prosecutor Philip Lacevara said in court Wednesday that the material includes "an index which lists events involving the President which the grand jury found may be important or pertinent to the inquiry." The court's decision came just hours after Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski announced that he had subpoenaed additional documents from the White House...
...special prosecutor's subpoena gives the White House until Monday to comply...
Sears was Vesco's man-"he was in Vesco's pocket," as a federal prosecutor bluntly put it. Vesco had contributed $20,000 to Sears' unsuccessful attempt to win New Jersey's Republican gubernatorial primary in 1969, then helped him to pay off his campaign debts. Vesco also put Sears on a $60,000-a-year retainer as part-time counsel and a director of his International Controls Corp., which had taken over Investors Overseas Services, the rickety mutual-fund empire glued together in Switzerland by Bernard Cornfeld...
...have been leaks from all sides in Watergate, that the news profession dearly loves exposes and scoops, and that the heat of competition sometimes melts good judgment. Last week, for instance, the Washington Star-News disclosed a private communication from Sirica to his fellow judges in which he mentioned Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's confidential estimate of the number of indictments to come. Though newsworthy, the story also intruded on grand jury privacy while adding nothing substantive to the public's knowledge of Watergate...