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...Garment, to the Oval Office. The discussion, said Haig, was "very painful and anguishing." Confronted with the enormous public demand for impeachment, the President reversed field. He told Buzhardt to instruct Nixon's top tapes counsel, University of Texas Law Professor Charles Alan Wright, to inform Judge Sirica that he would comply with the judge's decision and turn over the tapes...
Wright, who was preparing to argue the Stennis compromise before Sirica at noon, was astonished. Nixon was surrendering in a battle he had waged for three months, causing the wear and tear of national controversy plus immense injury to his own reputation as one who wanted the full truth of Watergate exposed...
...only 45 minutes before court time when Wright reviewed this turnabout announcement with Nixon in the Oval Office. No word of the switch had leaked out when Wright sat down quietly in Sirica's crowded courtroom at 2 p.m. At a table opposite him were eleven lawyers from the ousted Cox staff, apparently prepared to argue against the Stennis plan. Sirica entered, read tediously for 15 minutes from his original order demanding the tapes, and from the sustaining appeals court decision. Then he put down his papers and asked Wright: "Are counsel prepared at this time to file the response...
...courtroom was hushed. Everyone expected Wright to present the Nixon alternative plan?and everyone expected Sirica to reject it. Said Wright slowly: "I am not prepared at this time to file a response. I am, however, authorized to say that the President of the United States would comply in all respects with the order of August 29th as modified by the order of the court of appeals." He paused to let the meaning be absorbed, then continued: "It will require some time, as Your Honor realizes, to put these materials together, to do the indexing and itemizing as the court...
Obviously surprised, but calm, Sirica interrupted: "As I understand your statement, that will be delivered to this court?" Replied Wright: "To the court, in camera...