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...Sirica asked a disturbing question: Had the committee considered delaying its impeachment investigation until after the trials of the President's aides? Since those trials have now been set to start on Sept. 9, delay until then would be an intolerable disservice to a public that is understandably impatient over the slowness in deciding Nixon's fate. Doar replied that the committee has not considered any such delay-a point that Sirica may merely have wanted on the record to express his concern about pre-trial publicity involving the defendants (see THE LAW). Sirica gave no indication...
...fact that the White House has agreed to give to the Judiciary Committee all of the evidence that it gave Jaworski does not lessen the significance of the decision that Sirica faces. The grand jury evidence presumably applies directly to the President's role. Its acquisition could eliminate the time-consuming need for the Judiciary Committee staff to scour all of the material involving all of Nixon's aides to determine what is relevant to impeachment. Moreover, the grand jury material must also contain testimony of various Nixon aides who appeared before it-again possibly reducing the need...
Seeking Evidence. If Sirica decides not to give the grand jury evidence to the Judiciary Committee, the committee will issue a subpoena for it. In any event, the committee will certainly push on to subpoena other White House documents and tapes that Jaworski has not been able to acquire. Jaworski too is determined to pursue his own requests for such material in court. At his press conference, Nixon distorted Jaworski's position in declaring that the special prosecutor had agreed that the grand jury had "all the information that it needed in order to bring to a conclusion...
...indicted six days earlier in the Wategate cover-up on charges that carry a possible penalty of another 25 years. He and the other six cover-up conspirators pleaded innocent to all charges last week before Judge Sirica. The others were Haldeman, Colson, John Mitchell, Robert Mardian, Gordon Strachan and Kenneth Parkinson. At the same time, Colson and Ehrlichman pleaded not guilty to the Fielding burglary charges. All were ordered to surrender their passports and to notify the court of any change of address...
Kraft was criticizing the coverage of the Watergate grand jury's confidential report to Judge John Sirica, which was handed up along with the indictments. Though his column did not offer examples, he said later that he was thinking of stories by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post, James Naughton of the New York Times, Newsweek and CBS. The network had speculated-erroneously, as it turned out-on the number of people who were about to be named as defendants and coconspirators. The three publications, and others as well, discussed the grand jury's deliberations...