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...Nixon's troubles were still far from over last week, so were those of six of his former White House and political associates. As expected, their attorneys pleaded with Judge John J. Sirica to dismiss...
...most of the defendants that the trial should be delayed. While the defendants pleaded for postponement because of the massive publicity generated by Nixon's resignation, Jaworski based his concurrence on the need to analyze the 55 tape recordings of White House conversations that Federal Judge John J. Sirica is turning over to Jaworski under orders endorsed by the U.S. Supreme Court. Sirica was to hold a hearing this week on whether the trial should be postponed...
...higher official that Jaworski could seek to indict. Only a detailed admission of guilt, including his cover-up activities relating to such defendants as Ehrlichman, Haldeman and John Mitchell, would be likely to impress Jaworski. The penalty Nixon would then have to pay presumably would be up to Judge Sirica, although President Ford could of course pardon him after any judicial action...
...James W. McCord Jr., 50, whose letter to Judge John Sirica burst the Watergate dam, has told friends that sermons in suburban Washington's Fourth Presbyterian Church had a powerful impact on his decisions that winter. On the first Sunday of January 1973, McCord, a Methodist who had started attending the church only weeks before, heard the Rev. Richard Halverson, Washington's best-known evangelical preacher, talk about the power of Satan that tempted leaders to play God. The next week, when approached by White House Aide John Caulfield, McCord refused to plead guilty and remain silent...
...unaware of any coverup. I was unaware there was anything to cover up." Earlier, Ehrlichman and Haldeman tell the Senate committee that Dean was responsible for the coverup, and that they and the President are innocent. Aug. 22: Nixon terms Watergate "water under the bridge." But on Aug. 29, Sirica orders that he turn over tapes of the nine conversations subpoenaed...