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...Their occupations span a wide spectrum, including a loan specialist for the Department of Agriculture, a dime-store saleswoman, a logistics coordinator, a retired domestic and a hotel doorman. The jury is overwhelmingly female (nine to three). After they were selected, fully half the jurors told Judge John Sirica that they had reservations about convicting Richard Nixon's underlings in view of Nixon's pardon, but vowed that they would set aside such sentiments in judging the defendants...
...that point, the husky Ehrlichman's voice choked. He began to weep. "Excuse me," he said, sipping water from a cup. "Would you like a little recess?" gently asked Federal Judge John J. Sirica. Ehrlichman tried to continue, but Sirica raised both hands to stop him and ordered a 15-minute break. Confused, Ehrlichman walked toward the judge's exit until directed by Prates to a side door. Ehrlichman's wife Jeanne sat stoically in a second-row seat, her eyes not meeting her husband's. None of their five children were present...
...Sirica interrupted to ask: "Wouldn't this have been a good opportunity to get the facts out-during the FBI interview?" Ehrlichman lamely contended that he assumed the Department of Justice already knew more than he did. Asked Neal sarcastically: "Why didn't you take a chance and tell them anyway?" As Neal pounced on the contradictions in Ehrlichman's testimony, two of the normally impassive jurors smiled, apparently in appreciation of Neal's pinpointed attack. At one point, Sirica cautioned: "Mr. Neal, slow down. Your mind is working like a trigger...
Early Knowledge. The opening gambit of Ehrhlichman's defense backfired as his attorneys asked Sirica to call Charles W. Colson, imprisoned for his role in trying to defame Daniel Ellsberg, as a court witness. That allowed freer questioning and Colson promptly gave damaging testimony against Mitchell, Haldeman and even Ehrlichman. He helped Ehrlichman only in contending that an aborted White House effort to have Hunt leave the country before his arrest was John Dean's idea, not Ehrlichman...
...Colson said, he had been asked by Haldeman what would happen if Hunt "blew" (talked to investigators). "I said I thought it would be very bad... Bob [Haldeman] said, 'Then we can't let that happen.' " When Colson was finished, Chief Prosecutor James Neal told Sirica in a lawyers' conference that he was "more than willing" for the defense to "bring on more witnesses like Colson...