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...recently claimed by former White House Counsel John Dean, or only at the request of Republicans on the Banking Committee, as Ford claimed in the debate. Ford declined to urge that Nixon tapes of the period be examined. He was misleading in claiming that both the Watergate special prosecutor and Attorney General Edward Levi had investigated the topic and cleared him; they had merely refused to open full investigations into it. As the Los Angeles Times Jack Nelson pointed out, a clearer explanation could reasonably be asked of Ford. Carter scored by declining-for the first time...
...must the lawyer be? Last week a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia endorsed a set of standards that lawyers must meet. It then added the startling requirement that whenever a defendant shows that his lawyer was seriously inadequate, the federal prosecutor bears the burden of proving "beyond a reasonable doubt" that the lawyer's action did no harm to his client's chances...
Gerald Ford was ebullient. With justifiable satisfaction, the President called a televised press conference-his first since February-to drive home the point that he had been cleared by Watergate Special Prosecutor Charles Ruff of any possible charge of illegality in the handling of his congressional campaign funds since 1964. 'The special prosecutor has finally put this matter to rest once and for all," declared Ford. Indeed, Ruff had said flatly: "The matter has now been closed...
Buck Passers. The maritime unions were propelled into the spotlight in late September when Special Prosecutor Charles Ruff began investigating reports that President Ford had made illegal use of union campaign contributions. Ford had indeed received legal campaign contributions from the unions, and Ruff last week cleared him of any wrongdoing regarding these funds. Thus the net effect of the whole episode may be to emphasize a fact long familiar in Washington: the little maritime unions are some of the biggest and boldest political spenders around. "No one is busier on Capitol Hill," says a congressional staffer who handles merchant...
...imprisonment. Cutting through what is likely to be a reader's confused memories, he reveals precisely what he was thinking-and what he assumed Nixon and others meant-as they plotted to contain the scandal. The book also probes the often heartless world of high-powered lawyers and prosecutors bargaining over the fates of clients and defendants. (When Prosecution Witness Herbert Kalmbach wept on the stand in the cover-up trial, Special Prosecutor James Neal was sympathetic but also ecstatic: "He's had it tough. But by God, he's a hell of a witness...