Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Noting that Sirica's comment on Mitchell was not said in front of the jury, most of the experts see little harm done. That may have been "a dumb thing to do," observes Columbia Law School Dean Michael Severn, but Sirica's remark does not constitute the "provable deep prejudice" required for reversal. As for Sirica's praise of defense attorneys in grilling Dean, Yale Law Dean Abraham S. Goldstein views it as "a jocular remark" by a tired judge who let himself "be seduced into this spirit of courtroom camaraderie." Said in the presence...
...voice as Haldeman's. In a pained conference, Haldeman's attorneys insisted that the voice was Nixon's, and other attorneys agreed. Sirica offered to advise the jury of the mistake, but Frank Strickler, a Haldeman attorney, countered that that would only draw attention to the remark. The matter was dropped...
...John Connally's ranch the next year, Jaworski was one of the Texas dignitaries asked over to meet Nixon. By then Jaworski was president of the A.B.A. "When are you going to stop putting all those liberals on the court?" asked Nixon. Jaworski pondered the remark, decided it did not make sense and pushed it to the back of his mind. Then came the day last year when Nixon's chief of staff Alexander Haig called and asked him to be the special Watergate prosecutor. Jaworski hesitated. Haig sent a plane for him. The next morning Jaworski...
...Israel now lives in a state of almost complete siege, surrounded by Arab military and economic power and world support for Arab rights." That kind of remark, which appeared in an editorial in Cairo's daily al Akhbar, could easily have been dismissed as idle rhetoric had it preceded an Arab summit meeting in the past. But last week as 19 Arab leaders arrived in Rabat, Morocco, for a three-day conference, the mood was genuinely one of new-found strength and confidence...
...earned that vitriolic encomium from Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa when he led the Justice Department's effort to convict Hoffa. Now, ten years after Hoffa was found guilty of jury tampering, Neal is the chief trial prosecutor in the Watergate cover-up case. He still treasures the Hoffa remark, but as he prepared to open the Government's case this week, he observed: "I've mellowed a lot since then." A colleague of Neal's agrees -sort of: "He has mellowed a lot. But even mellowed, he's still the most vicious prosecutor who ever...