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...over what evidence can be excluded from judicial proceedings on grounds of Executive privilege; 3) whether Executive privilege can be claimed in a criminal case; 4) whether the President had effectively waived privilege in the Watergate affair by his own selective release of evidence; and 5) whether Judge John Sirica's order that Nixon must comply with the Jaworski subpoenas was proper...
...John J. Sirica, L.H.D., Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court, Washington, D.C. Dedicated to the principles that the judiciary must judge and that the whole truth is vital to the attainment of justice, he has quietly, firmly and consistently tested his principles by practice...
...They can go to hearings, onto the floor when the Senator is there, and get to a lot of parties." He added, "and Caroline wants to be treated like all the others." The bearer of another famous name will be interning this summer on Capitol Hill. John J. Sirica Jr., 21, a junior at Duke University-where President Nixon went to law school-is assigned to the Chicago Tribune's Washington bureau as a copy boy and writer trainee. However, John Jr. will not be assigned to cover the U.S. district court where his father presides over several Watergate...
...thrill of stage-managing Richard Nixon's triumphal second Inauguration, Jeb Stuart Magruder had to take care of what he hoped was one last nuisance left over from the previous year. Putting a handsome, confident face on whatever anxiety he may have felt, he appeared in Judge John Sirica's Washington courtroom and testified falsely as a witness for the prosecution at the trial of the Watergate burglars. Shortly afterward, he hopped a plane to California to explore launching his own elective career for secretary of state...
Last week Magruder, 39, was back before Sirica, this time as a confessed felon. On June 4, the very day of the California state G.O.P. primary he might have won if the Watergate cover-up and his personal game plan had worked, Magruder will go to jail. The ten-month minimum sentence for his part in the scandal was stiffer than he expected after more than a year of cooperation with the prosecutors. His pretty wife Gail could not hold back the tears, but Magruder kept his composure as he read a prepared statement to an impassive Sirica...