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...general debate, the first sidetracking stemmed from an attempt by Republican McClory to delay proceedings for ten days if the President would promptly agree to give the House Judiciary Committee the same tapes he had been ordered by the Supreme Court to yield to Federal Judge John J. Sirica for use by Special Prosecutor Jaworski in the impending Watergate cover-up trial. Actually, McClory conceded that he had little expectation of a favorable response from Nixon. McClory's tactic was aimed at strengthening a contempt of Congress article against the President he planned to introduce. The motion was defeated...
...after day, the disturbing news from the East crashed upon the President's retreat like the waves from the Pacific below. First came the Supreme Court's unanimous decision that the President must surrender the 64 subpoenaed tapes to Judge John Sirica. This was followed by the defection of at least five Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee at the beginning of the committee's televised debate...
Definitively and unanimously, the court ended President Nixon's effort to withhold evidence from Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski in the Watergate case. Nixon was ordered "forthwith" to turn over tapes and other records relating to 64 White House conversations to Judge John Sirica's district court for use by Jaworski in the upcoming trials of six of the President's aides...
...President's instructions to his lieutenants* emerged now because the House Judiciary Committee made its own transcripts of eight White House tapes that were turned over to the committee by Federal Judge John Sirica. When the committee published this material last week, observers quickly discovered scores of discrepancies between the White House transcripts and the committee's versions...
...scandal had so much of the evidence been brought together in one place. The eight volumes of material released last week by the House Judiciary Committee assembled all the available bits and pieces of the Watergate mosaic: previously secret grand jury testimony furnished to the committee by Judge John Sirica, memos written by President Nixon and some of his high aides, Senate Watergate Committee testimony, tape recordings from the Oval Office, a presidential Dictabelt, and notes scrawled on legal-size pads in the President's irregular hand. The Judiciary Committee formed no conclusions and drew no verdicts...