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...briefcase handed to Judge Sirica by Jaworski's staff attorneys may well contain evidence that could render irrelevant the continuing controversy over whether a President can only be impeached if found guilty of criminal conduct. House Democratic Leader Tip O'Neill said as much last week at a seminar with students at Harvard. "I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that Jaworski could have indicted the President of the U.S.," O'Neill said. "But he didn't try and I'm glad he didn't, because I'd hate to see the President of the U.S. indicted." The evidence...
...operation of the secret committee was a felony charge. The Jaworski staff told Judge Sirica that three other unnamed former White House aides helped Kalmbach run the committee. They, too, will presumably be charged at some later date. It seems highly unlikely that such a large fund would have been gathered without the President's knowledge. The deal with the ambassador was only a misdemeanor, and Symington never got a European job; but it would have taken
...leaders, Liddy and Hunt, while they were in prison or awaiting trial. Kalmbach claimed that Ehrlichman personally assured him that the payments were proper and that he should carry out John Dean's instructions to make them, and he apparently will so testify if Ehrlichman goes on trial. Judge Sirica postponed sentencing Kalmbach?apparently until after he makes good on his promise to cooperate with Prosecutor Jaworski...
...even the work of the original Watergate grand jury is complete. Sirica ordered the understandably weary jurors to be prepared to return within two weeks. One pending bit of unfinished business could be serious indeed for Nixon. The FBI and Jaworski's staff have been investigating the 18½-minute erasure on one presidential tape recording, as well as the claimed nonexistence of two other tapes and unexplained gaps in several more...
...much narrower the circle has been drawn by the grand jury remained locked at week's end in Judge Sirica's courthouse safe: a letter in a manila envelope and a bulging briefcase. Together, those two ordinary artifacts of everyday life could contain enough critical mass to produce the largest bombshell yet in Watergate's long, concussive series. Richard Nixon may manage to survive whatever conclusions and evidence they lay out; perhaps their contents...