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EVENTS OF THE last week have again shown the pervasive corruption infesting the Nixon administration. Only because of the honorable and intelligent behavior of men like Federal Judge John J. Sirica have these scandals surfaced, but we have now reached the point where a thoroughgoing investigation of the executive branch is appropriate...
...second, and in some ways more ominous, aspect of the week's news related to Watergate was convicted defendant James W. McCord's letter to Judge Sirica. In the letter McCord claimed that he and his fellow defendants were pressured into keeping quiet about the involvement of higher officials, and that perjury had marked the trial. He also claimed to fear testifying in front of anyone from the executive branch, including FBI agents. As a result, he and Judge Sirica will meet privately to discuss the case...
...Judge Sirica has handled himself extraordinarily well in this foul corner. With a compromised investigation, a tepid prosecution and deluded defendants pleading guilty and seeking a bizarre martyrdom, the chances of a thorough airing of what and who was involved in Watergate seemed small. Now, perhaps, Sirica will be successful in ventilating the mess at least partially...
...lifelong Republican and a federal judge since his appointment by Eisenhower in 1957, Sirica has been the chief judge for the D.C. district court for more than two years. As such, he has the pick of the cases, and he took the Watergate trial for himself. From the beginning he established control, questioning witnesses himself, sometimes effectively, sometimes...
...judges are magisterial black-robed referees who leave the legal combat to the attorneys appearing before them. Sometimes, however, they join the fray, as in the just-completed Watergate trial in Washington, where both prosecution and defense seemed so reluctant to mix it up that Judge John J. Sirica was moved to do his own questioning (see THE NATION). In the Pentagon papers trial in Los Angeles, it is Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. who has been forced into taking on both sides...