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...This thing may become ... a vendetta. This judge [Sirica] may go off the deep end in sentencing...
Court Battle? Nixon's decision, in another transcript phrase, to "stonewall" his opposition, also applied to Jaworski's subpoena of tapes. Lawyer St. Clair presented a brief to Federal Judge John J. Sirica, arguing that Jaworski's subpoena for 64 additional tapes should be quashed because he had not shown that the material was relevant to the trial of the seven Nixon associates charged in the cover-up.* St. Clair also argued that all portions of the subpoenaed materials that had not been made public were protected by Executive privilege and could be kept confidential by the President. Sirica scheduled...
...late January, the Watergate seven had either pleaded guilty or been convicted. At the end of the trial, Judge John Sirica had warned that he was not satisfied that all the guilty persons had been brought to justice. In early February, the Senate voted to set up the Watergate committee to investigate 1972 presidential campaign practices. L. Patrick Gray was making his first appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was holding hearings for his confirmation as permanent FBI director. The President is concerned about the leaks on Watergate from...
...second subpoena, which came two weeks ago from Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. It demanded 64 tapes of presidential conversations with aides from June 1972 through June 1973 that dealt primarily with the Watergate coverup; included were 24 tapes asked for by the Judiciary Committee. Federal Judge John J. Sirica ordered that the White House answer the subpoena by this Thursday. Presidential aides thought it unlikely that the deadline could be met. But it was possible that Nixon was seeking a way to dispose of both subpoenas at once, in another grand effort to get free and clear of Watergate once...
...subpoena, requested by Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski and approved by Judge John Sirica, demanded tapes of 64 conversations between Nixon and his aides from June 20, 1972 through June 4, 1973. Jaworski has been vainly seeking the tapes in private negotiations with the White House since Jan. 9. He contends that he needs them for the trial of seven Nixon men indict ed hi the Watergate coverup: H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, John Mitch ell, Charles Colson, Robert Mardian, Gordon Strachan and Kenneth Parkin son. Their trial has been set for Sept. 9, though they have until May 1 to file...