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...Nixon revealed that he would refuse to comply with an appeals-court order directing him to yield his controversial tapes and documents to Federal Judge John J. Sirica for in camera inspection. Nor would he carry his case to the Supreme Court. Instead, he proposed to make available summaries of relevant portions of the tapes. These would first be authenticated by Senator John C. Stennis, whom he would let hear the tapes in their entirety...
Nixon could hardly have anticipated that his bid to resolve the Watergate tapes controversy short of the Supreme Court would take such a dangerous turn. After being petitioned by Prosecutor Cox, Judge Sirica had ordered that the tapes of White House conversations and Watergate-related papers be given to him so that he could decide what portions should be relayed to the grand jury directed by Cox. Sirica's ruling had been sustained on Oct. 12 in a sharply worded 5-to-2 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...
This summary, Nixon declared, would be given to both the Senate Watergate committee and Judge Sirica. It would not, however, be a verbatim transcript. Nor would any portion of the tapes or any papers be given to Sirica...
Several hours before the news conference, 52 senators joined in introducing legislation requiring the appointment of a special, independent prosecutor by Chief Judge John J. Sirica. Just over 100 congressmen introduced a similar resolution in the House...
...Sirica said it was a "great thrill" to be out of Washington, because "they blame me" for many of the Watergate-related crises...