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Momentarily overshadowed by Justice Douglas' abortive stay of the bombing of Cambodia, Nixon's more important court confrontation-over presidential tapes and documents relating to Watergate-was being joined. At 10 a.m. Tuesday, the White House was to deliver its legal brief to Judge John J. Sirica (see box), arguing that the President has the absolute power to decide when the national welfare is best served by the release of presidential documents. Therefore, went the argument, the President can ignore Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox's subpoena of tape recordings of seven presidential meetings and one telephone...
...Ervin committee about their private conversations with him, and 2) by permitting H.R. Haldeman, a private citizen since his departure as White House chief of staff, to listen to tapes of presidential meetings. After receiving the Cox reply and giving the White House an opportunity to rebut it, Sirica will schedule oral arguments in the case...
...much as any man, Judge John J. Sirica, 69, is responsible for what the nation is learning about Watergate. It was he who presided over the trial of the Watergate Seven and, by delaying sentencing, persuaded James McCord to break ranks with his fellow convicted burglars and talk in hopes of a lesser jail term. Watergate has been unraveling in full view ever since. Fittingly, it has fallen to Judge Sirica to referee this week the first full round in the battle for the White House tapes, now under subpoena by both the Senate Watergate committee and Special Prosecutor Archibald...
During the Watergate Seven trial, Sirica won a reputation as the feisty judge who asked the questions that the prosecutors would not touch. But to courthouse regulars, he has long been known as "Maximum John" for his tough sentences...
...links to the truth have been tenuous throughout the whole Watergate affair. Were it not for Judge John Sirica, the whole matter might have been limited to the conviction of the seven original culprits. But, under pressure, promise and threat from Sirica, McCord finally came through with that rare and precious thing--the truth...