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After Judge John J. Sirica sentenced Liddy to up to 20 years and the others to even stiffer terms, but with the promise that he would review the penalties if they spoke up, Liddy remained mum and received an additional sentence for contempt of court. McCord took the suggestion to heart, and he wrote Sirica, charging that higher authorities had been involved in a coverup. With that, the whole attempt at concealment began to collapse...
...secretly with Sam Dash, the Ervin committee's chief counsel. Afterward, the committee voted unanimously to guarantee Dean a limited immunity against prosecution for whatever he might tell in the televised hearings. The Justice Department can-and intends to-delay that request for 30 days, but Judge John Sirica will have to approve it at the end of that period...
...Sirica last week ruled that his court will take custody of nine documents that Dean had removed from his White House office and placed in a bank vault before he was fired. Though the White House demanded the return of the papers-whose nature has not been disclosed-Sirica said that he would keep them. Both the Ervin committee and federal prosecutors will be given copies...
...life, took away from his office nine documents that he says are marked secret and shed light on the Watergate hearing. He said that he removed them to prevent "illegitimate destruction" and then stashed them in a bank deposit vault; he gave the keys to Federal Judge John Sirica, whose pressure on the convicted wiretappers helped release new disclosures...
...fuller and franker account of his own discussions and decisions from the beginning. Meanwhile, we are all much indebted to a privately employed night watchman who was on his toes; three District of Columbia policemen who reacted very fast; a posse of persistent journalists; the courageous judge, John Sirica, who reminds us what an independent judiciary means; the looming figure of Senator Sam Ervin, whose impending hearings surely helped loosen various tongues. In short, the American democratic "system," an even grander and more important thing than the presidency, is Still running...