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...Gart, Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey and Correspondents Bonnie Angelo and Dean Fischer. Sidey and Angelo also caucused with Nelson Rockefeller to discuss his role in the Administration, while Fischer talked with White House Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld about the President's work style. When Judge John Sirica released key Watergate Witness John Dean from prison, the first interview he granted was with TIME'S Hays Gorey...
Thus did three of the men who were among the first to tell the truth about the Watergate cover-up learn that their prison terms had been cut short by a compassionate Judge John J. Sirica. Although they had formally applied for release earlier, Sirica had, in a sense, held them hostage until after the conspiracy trial ended. The testimony of Dean, Magruder and Kalmbach had helped convict four former officials of the Nixon Administration-John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Robert Mardian-in that trial. Former Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski believes, in fact, that the testimony of such...
...Judge Sirica refused to explain why he had freed the trio. Typically, he would only say: "I did what I thought was right. The orders will have to speak for themselves." But TIME has learned some of the factors that Sirica considered. They included his belief that the three had been sufficiently punished for their Watergate transgressions, their cooperation with prosecutors, the lack of any move by the special prosecutor's staff to oppose early release, and Kalmbach's weeping at the trial, which dramatized the personal tragedy inflicted upon those caught up in the scandal...
...judge also apparently felt that the inexperienced Dean, the naive Kalmbach and the malleable Magruder had largely been exploited by the shrewder trio of Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Mitchell. Sirica, moreover, is known to favor setting an example of leniency for convicted men who cooperate in establishing the full truth of the circumstances surrounding their crimes...
...thought the trial was well run. We all had a bumpy start, making statements we shouldn't have made. But considering the complexity of the case, the emotions involved, it went along fairly smoothly. I think Judge Sirica did himself a lot of good by the fair way he conducted the trial, which some didn't expect...