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While both sides appealed Sirica's decision on Cox's suit-and Sirica selected two lawyers to defend his own ruling before the appeals court-the judge also had to deal with Sam Dash's plea for the tapes. In this case, he appeared to be more favorably disposed toward the White House. He granted the large staff of White House lawyers (ten are now working full time on the Watergate defense) until Sept. 24 to respond to the Ervin committee's demand for the tapes. He set no date for oral arguments after that...
...Mark Rudds, Mario Savios, Jerry Rubins, Tom Haydens-have all but dropped out of sight. Today's heroes have left their youth a long way behind them. Henry Kissinger (age 50) and Buckminster Fuller (78), Margaret Mead (71) and Dorothy Day (75), John Sirica (69) and Walter Cronkite (56) look and act their age. Surely no one has done more for age than 76-year old Sam Ervin, whose Watergate hearings are a parable of the times. One by one, bright young men who had gone astray filed before the aged patriarch to do penance and seek absolution...
...might happen if that court ruled against Nixon. He has promised to abide by a "definitive ruling" of the Supreme Court. But, by implication, he would ignore anything short of that, and he has never explained what he would consider "definitive." As Wright pointed out in his arguments before Sirica, the courts have no way to force a determined President to obey. Still, Sirica did not see that possibility as any reason to duck the constitutional issues. He declared hopefully: "Regardless of its physical power to enforce them, the court has a duty to issue appropriate orders ... It would tarnish...
When President Nixon appeals Judge John Sirica's demand for the presidential tapes, the case will move this week from the second floor of the U.S. Court House up to the fifth-floor chambers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. There it will be heard either en banc by the court's membership of nine judges or by a three-judge panel selected at random. Considering the importance of the case, the judges may decide that all should assemble...
...John J. Sirica's 23-page decision that the President must surrender his tapes relied heavily on legal and political precedents-on the theory of the Constitution, the trial of Aaron Burr and President Truman's unsuccessful attempt to take over the steel industry. In threading his way through this maze, Sirica carefully took up and rejected virtually all the arguments that the White House lawyers had presented. His verdict, though phrased with the density of legal language, is a historic document. Excerpts...