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Reporters stood to rush for telephones. Sirica ordered them to sit down. Still seeming suspicious, he asked: "You will follow the decisions or statements delineated by me?" Said Wright: "We will comply in all respects with what Your Honor has just read." Moments later, Wright added: "This President does not defy the law, and he has authorized me to say he will comply in full with the orders of the court." The judge smiled broadly. "Mr. Wright," he said, "the court is very happy the President has reached this decision...
Despite the settlement with Sirica, the number of telegrams had soared past 220,000; White House officials reported receiving "mountains" of messages. The Senate Watergate committee had counted 8,000, only ten favoring the firing of Cox. The special prosecutor's former office got 10,000. Senator Tunney's tabulation had passed 8,000, while Senator Goldwater said that even after the tapes reversal the ratio of protests was running 80 to 1 against Nixon...
Aware of these doctoring techniques, Judge John J. Sirica has indicated that he would like experts to examine the Watergate tapes. But there is a problem; anyone who listens to the tapes will learn what is on them-a breach of confidentiality. Under the U.S. Court of Appeals order, only Sirica is supposed to hear the tapes initially. Even if Sirica wins authorization to have the tapes examined, the fact remains that the technology of detection is not so far advanced as the technology of deception.* The detector must rely on an oscilloscope, which translates electrical impulses of sound into...
...Sirica will have no difficulty identifying the voices on the tapes, since the White House is supplying him with a log indicating the participants at each of the meetings, which were usually attended by only a few persons...
...turning point for many Republicans who have staunchly defended the president in the past was the mid-week announcement by Nixon's lawyers, claiming that two of the nine Watergate tapes which Nixon agreed to turn over to District Court Judge John Sirica have never existed...