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Breslin's hero of the impeachment summer is Tip O'Neill, Leon Jaworski and John Sirica don't enthrall him. Breslin has no taste for the intricate semantic entanglements of lawyers, and prefers the nitty-gritty politician, where he feels all action originates. His interpretation of some of the events of late last summer is an inverted version of most newspaper analyses. While most editorials agreed that the lining up of votes against Nixon in Congress was due to the unanimous Supreme Court decision, Breslin maintains that the 8-0 vote was based on the justices' knowledge that the Congress...
...indubitably a major force in organizing the House votes against Nixon. But any other Majority Leader would probably have been equally effective, and Breslin presents no clearcut evidence that O'Neill had anything more to do with Nixon's demise than other more publicized figures--Jaworski, or Sirica. O'Neill is really just an above average hack politician, risen to a position of power through a certain measure of talent, political knowhow, and luck. But because Breslin identifies so heavily with O'Neill (they are both Irish, fat, and aggressive), he tends to make O'Neill seem a more important...
Other speakers on the list of alternatives to Ali include Hunter S. Thompson, Katherine Graham, Judge John Sirica and Richard Nixon...
...payoffs to the burglars and had testified for the Government in the trial that led to the convictions of H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Robert Mardian and Mitchell. LaRue, a former aide to Mitchell at Nixon's re-election committee, was sentenced by Federal Judge John J. Sirica to six months in jail...
...happier aspects of the years of the Nixon presidency. As he left the courtroom, he autographed a huge photo of Nixon for a group of youths. Ehrlichman, who claims to be $400,000 in debt already to his lawyers, came away with only one marginal break from Judge Sirica: if all appeals fail, he will be allowed to serve his new prison term concurrently with a 20-month minimum sentence for conspiracy in the Daniel Ellsberg case...