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...Certainly such men as Archibald Cox, Elliot Richardson, William Ruckelshaus and John Sirica should be TIME's Men of the Year...
Buzhardt told Sirica that the Mitchell conversation was not recorded because Nixon had made the call on a telephone not connected to the extensive secret White House recording system. The White House claims that the President used a hall telephone in his residential quarters...
...Sirica hearings centered mainly on the other missing tape,* one that was believed to have been made of a conversation on April 15, 1973 between Nixon and his fired former counsel, John Dean. In that talk, Dean has testified, Nixon admitted he had been "foolish" in discussing Executive clemency for E. Howard Hunt in exchange for his silence. He had also said, according to Dean, that his previous assurance that it would be easy to raise $1,000,000 for silence money for the arrested men was intended only as a joke. That, as Dean saw it, meant that Nixon...
...tapes on April 25 and 26 and had given them to Haldeman-a surprising fact that Haldeman had not reported in his Senate Watergate testimony. Haldeman has admitted listening to only two tapes (Sept. 15 and March 21), He has been subpoenaed for questioning this week in the Sirica hearings. Further confusing the matter, Senate investigators insisted that Bull told them that Buzhardt had listened to the April 15 tape in late June. Bull testified last week that he had been "educated" that Buzhardt had actually heard a March 20 recording...
...Enable John J. Sirica, as chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to name a special prosecutor who could be fired only for "extraordinary improprieties." The bill was sponsored by Democrats Philip Hart of Michigan and Birch Bayh of Indiana, and would keep the prosecutor free from the Democratic-controlled Congress as well as the White House. But some lawyers have raised doubts about its constitutionality...