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...RECORD STRAIGHT by John J. Sirica Norton; 391 pages...
...last of the Watergate convicts, former Attorney General John Mitchell, was freed from an Alabama federal prison last week after serving 14 months of his one-to four-year sentence. Meanwhile, the Watergate judge, John Sirica, was dotting the i's on his forthcoming book To Set the Record Straight (W.W. Norton; $15). The judge, now 74 and semiretired, drew upon impressions he jotted down during the trial: how the witnesses and defendants looked and acted, whether he felt they were telling the truth or "exaggerating." The actual work took place at his Washington home, in a study with...
Many of those gathered in the historic building had helped to make history during the past 30 years: Senator Eugene McCarthy, Lady Bird Johnson, General William Westmoreland, Judge John Sirica, Buckminster Fuller, Julia Child, Van Cliburn, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. They were talking with a dozen artists who had been associated with them and other leading figures in a special way-painting or sculpturing portraits for the cover of TIME...
...cover subjects were less effusive-or perhaps just more modest. Senator McCarthy thought his portrait "captured the sort of impressionistic spirit of 1968." Judge Sirica admitted to having a framed copy of his own TIME portrait in his den ("My law clerks gave it to me"), but General Westmoreland had a different attitude. "My house is a home, not a museum," he declared. "Besides, any recognition I got was attributable to my troops, who did a magnificent job." And Lady Bird Johnson did not want to talk about her por trait at all. She graciously steered conversations to the exhibit...
Hundley vaulted into prominence during the long Watergate cover-up trial. He acquired near hero status among fellow smokers by regularly offering a plausible reason for a recess, even though all he really wanted was a cigarette. Once, when he was representing Mitchell, Judge John Sirica angrily threatened to clear the courtroom after an outburst of laughter. Deadpanned Hundley, whose client was having a particularly bad day: "How do you feel about crying, Judge?" Spectators roared, and Sirica relaxed...