Word: silbert
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...some kind of commentary. There is for instance the meeting in the Oval Office on June 23, 1972, where Haldeman informs the President that the break-in was engineered by a bunch of people over at CREEP. All Nixon has to do at this point is call Earl Silbert at the prosecutor's office, come completely clean, and his problems are over. Why doesn't he? Is it out of loyalty to John Mitchell? Higgins is content to observe that "if you work hard enough, you can transform any problem into a calamity", and leaves it at that. In another...
...heroes of the book are those men who act most in accordance with the precepts of the law, and who do their jobs efficiently. So Earl Silbert and Elliot L. Richardson are praised profusely for "doing it by the book," and those who used the case as an opportunity to mount their political soapboxes incur Higgins's wrath...
...that will provide the answer. Joseph Montoya extracts "moral advice for the young people of this nation...from every felon who testified," and Lowell Weicker, with mind-deadening consistency explodes in a fit of moral outrage every afternoon at four o'clock, in time to dominate the evening news. Silbert and his team worried less about the strength of their case than they did about the behavior of Judge "Maximum John" Sirica, whose obvious assumption of presidential involvement threatened to blow the case in appeal...
Rounding out the Crimson's triumph, number-eight-man Tim Morgan won his first two games before his opponent, Ed Silbert, was forced to forfeit the match due to an injury...
...Nixon's re-election committee and the White House were deeply involved in the planning and financing of the Watergate breakin. Petersen replied that he had let White House and campaign officials avoid testifying before the Watergate grand jury to spare them publicity, and that he had called Silbert off other aspects of the case out of caution. Perhaps, he allowed, he had showed "too much restraint...