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...John Stennis, was generally seen as an attempt to evade the courts' more demanding order. But for the public outcry, Nixon was prepared to cling to that plan, and had he done so, he almost certainly would have been declared in contempt of court by Federal Judge John J. Sirica and, as a result, impeached. In a sense, the public outrage may have helped save Nixon from himself in the tapes case...
...Watergate controversy entered the realm of existentialism this week when J. Fred Buzhardt, a special counsel to President Nixon, told Judge John J. Sirica that two of the tapes subpeonaed by the court never existed...
...Judge Sirica is currently holding hearings into the circumstances surrounding the non-existence of the tapes. Whatever the outcome of those hearings, the latest episode in the Watergate affair will leave Americans still asking, "What is reality...
...memo sent last week to President Nixon by the Republican leaders urged him to make sure the investigation goes on vigorously under Petersen, to see that a new special prosecutor is named and to consider allowing District Court Judge John Sirica to appoint the prosecutor...
...entire plan; he knew only that Cox had not yet accepted it. Stennis insisted that he would not agree either unless the Senate Watergate committee's Ervin and Baker also approved. Since the Ervin committee's suit for the tapes had been thrown out of court by Sirica (on the narrow ground that the committee had not demonstrated a legal standing to bring the suit), Stennis thought the Nixon offer might be the best the Senate could obtain...