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...disclosures made as a result of Judge John Sirica's pressure on the burglars. By these means the reporters began to reconstruct, artifact by artifact, bone by bone, the mysterious subculture known as Watergate...
...Clair took two other steps to strengthen Nixon's pending Supreme Court arguments against an order by Federal Judge John J. Sirica that the President must honor Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's subpoena for 64 tapes. St. Clair petitioned the Supreme Court to consider as part of that case whether a grand jury had the authority to name the President as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate coverup, as it had secretly voted to do last Feb. 25, and, if so, whether it had acted on the basis of sufficient evidence. He also asked Judge Sirica...
...another St. Clair action, the attorney served notice that he will appeal an order by Judge Sirica that a 17-minute segment of one Nixon conversation dealing with the Internal Revenue Service be given to Jaworski. So far only Judge Sirica has had access to the tape. Sirica had originally withheld the segment in a belief that IRS matters were not relevant to Jaworski's Watergate investigations. Advised recently by Jaworski that White House attempts to use the IRS for political purposes were under investigation, Sirica changed his mind...
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President Nixon, with all the swollen powers of the Executive Branch behind him, evidently saw no salt whatever in Archie Cox. When the president refused a Circuit Court order to hand over nine tapes to Judge John J. Sirica and ordered Cox "to make no further attempts by judicial process to obtain the tapes," he expected Cox would quietly resign as he had when Truman crossed...