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...climax was heralded by the U.S. Supreme Court. On July 24, it ruled 8 to 0 that Executive privilege, though a valid doctrine, could not prevail over the impartial administration of justice. The President must turn over to Judge John Sirica the 64 tapes subpoenaed for the cover-up trial of six former Administration officials. For those of us who knew Nixon's way of talking, the ruling spelled the end; if the tapes did not prove fatal legally, they would politically...
...version of the Watergate scandal contains not a single previously unknown fact or innovative argument. Instead, it is a string of extraordinarily bitter and venomous recriminations and accusations. His main targets are John Dean, portrayed as a pathological liar, and his two trial judges--Gerhard Gesell and John J. Sirica--both the whom he sees as incompetent grandstanders...
...Sirica's a feisty little guy, a former boxer," says Actor Martin Balsam, 60. "If you wanted to cast a judge, you would never cast him." But you might very well cast Balsam, who will portray the Watergate justice in a TV-movie based on John Sirica's 1979 memoir To Set the Record Straight. After judiciously reviewing Balsam's credentials-as a juror in 12 Angry Men (1957) and a Washington Post editor in All the President's Men (1976)-and meeting in his chambers with the actor, Maximum John, 76, ruled him "a very...
...candidates through the election. In 1972, as Boston bureau chief, he followed the New England primaries, and in 1976 he was part of the Washington bureau team that trailed the Carter-Mondale campaign. After taking a leave from his correspondent's duties-first to help Watergate Judge John Sirica compose his memoirs, later to write as a member of TIME's New York staff-Stacks returned to the pursuit of politicians...
Next stop was the convention of the Sons of Italy. Joining Carter on the podium were Attorney General-designate Benjamin Civiletti, Watergate Judge John Sirica, New York Democratic Congressman Mario Biaggi and Monsignor Gino Baroni, Assistant Secretary of HUD. Carter used the occasion for another attack on Congress. Said he: "I'm sorry to say that until now the general interest has had a hard time of it in the halls of Congress...