Word: subpoenaing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...witness or defendant. The grand jury that only named Nixon an unindicted co-conspirator because of doubts that a sitting President could be indicted can reconvene at any time to indict Citizen Nixon. A decision of some sort is inevitable since one defendant, John Ehrlichman, last week issued a subpoena for Nixon's testimony at the trial. Accompanying the subpoena, which presumably will be served on Nixon at San Clemente this week, was a check for $302 for his travel expenses to and from Washington and a $20 daily witness...
...subpoena from Ehrlichman marked a sharp break in longtime cooperative defense strategy between Ehrlichman and Nixon's other former top aide, H.R. Haldeman. Both had previously denied any attempt to obstruct justice by impeding the Watergate investigation. The devastating June 23, 1972, transcripts of talks between Nixon and Haldeman, however, clearly show that Nixon and Haldeman had used the CIA to impede the FBI probe. TIME has learned that Ehrlichman, who also talked to both CIA and FBI officials at the same time, wants his lawyers to question Nixon about the precise instructions the President had given him. Ehrlichman...
...Nixon, the subpoena presents an acute personal problem. He can move to quash it, as he had on several occasions in other litigation as President, but legal experts see little hope of a successful challenge now that he is out of office. Eventually, he probably will either have to plead the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination or testify and perhaps further incriminate himself...
...Jaworski decision could be influenced by whatever the special prosecutor yet learns about Nixon's Watergate role in the tapes he is now acquiring. His staff indicated last week that it has no plans to subpoena any more tapes or documents from the ex-President. Nevertheless, the Jaworski team demonstrated that it had more than a casual interest in the 950 reels of taped Nixon conversations still locked up in the Executive Office Building. Among their final official acts, Nixon's chief Watergate defense lawyers, James St. Clair and J. Fred Buzhardt, advised Ford's staff that...
...will have to get a new lawyer. Even before the resignation was formally filed, James St. Clair announced that he no longer represented Nixon, though at Ford's behest he will stay on at the White House temporarily to supervise the indexing of papers and tapes still under subpoena. The new Nixon attorney will be needed immediately. The cover-up trial of John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman et al. is due to start in three weeks, and should the former President be a witness, he ought to have the advice of a fully informed lawyer before giving...