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...that the selection of Judge Sirica as Man of the Year is as poor a selection as you have ever made...
...that Judge John Sirica is a despicable, contemptible, malicious man obsessed by power who should really not have the right to judge and persecute others...
...sound, recording, and electronics experts who had exhaustively examined a presidential tape recording containing a mysterious 18-minute deletion of a Watergate conversation between Nixon and his intimate aide, H.R. Haldeman. It would have exceeded both their purview and their competence. But in reporting to Federal Judge John J. Sirica that the conversation had been erased by pushing buttons on a tape recorder at least five?and probably nine ?times, they had found, in effect, that this destruction of evidence necessarily had to be deliberate. Until someone within the White House steps forward to admit that...
...court-appointed panel's devastating findings, the nation once again experienced the dismay of knowing that FBI agents were back in the White House, quizzing Nixon's closest associates in a search for those who had committed a criminal act. This time the inquiry had the official sanction of Sirica, who ordered that all evidence be turned over to a federal grand jury for possible indictment. Unlike an earlier foray into the White House?shortly after the wiretap-burglary of Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate in June of 1972?the FBI agents this time had an imposing prime suspect...
...four days of testimony in Sirica's second-floor courtroom following submission of the experts' report, the evidence increasingly constricted the period during which the taped conversation had been erased. Since the erasure apparently required the confluence of a specific tape machine and one specific tape, the suspects were also severely limited. If the White House's own records are accurate?an uncertain proposition ?only three persons are known to have had access to both the tape and the recorder in the suspect period. They are Stephen Bull, Special Assistant to the President; Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's secretary...