Word: transcript
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...followed a day later by a 50-page legal brief by his attorney, James St. Clair. It attempted to argue the best case possible for the President by seeking to discredit the testimony of former White House Counsel John Dean against Nixon and by pointing up parts of the transcript that show the President in the best light. "In all the thousands of words spoken," it says, "even though they are often unclear and ambiguous, not once does it appear that the President of the U.S. was engaged in a criminal plot to obstruct justice...
...large, legal and law enforcement professionals were aghast at the damning evidence against Nixon. Chicago Professor Philip B. Kurland, one of the nation's leading experts on the Constitution and a consultant to the Senate Watergate Committee, said that he found "strong evidence" in the transcripts that Nixon was guilty of inducing his aides to commit perjury and of obstructing justice?both indictable crimes and therefore impeachable offenses by Nixon's own definition. Kurland added: "I can't find either ambiguity or any evidence which tends to exonerate him." Dean Michael Severn of Columbia University Law School looked closely...
...President in his speech and St. Clair in his brief attempted to defend Nixon in some?but not all?of the most potentially damaging areas of evidence presented in the transcripts. An analysis of their contentions and of the transcript evidence in three key areas...
Indeed, so many notations of "unintelligible" occur at critical points on the transcripts that suspicions inevitably arose that some of the missing portions were intentionally left out. For example, in discussing the possibility of offering clemency to Howard Hunt, Nixon apparently had a precedent in mind, but the transcript for that meeting on March 21, 1973, quotes the President as telling Dean: "The only thing we could do with him would be to parole him like the [unintelligible] situation." Again, the transcript for an April 17, 1973, meeting has Nixon saying to Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Ronald Ziegler: "Damn...
...methods are not subtle. Troy hurls epithets like "moron," "featherbrain" and "cream puff" at his targets. A recent Troy article on graft in the awarding of state building contracts reeks with outrage: "Spending a weekend reading the transcript from the Oklahoma County grand jury is like being trapped in a sewer for two days. Pustules of corruption sear your senses and you search in vain for some escape from the smothering putrefaction...