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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...
...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...
Boyle's testimony cracked under Sprague's 88-minute crossexamination. Despite Boyle's frequent pleas of poor memory, the prosecutor repeatedly trapped him. He denied sending Turn-blazer a transcript of a U.M.W. meeting outlining a phony alibi for union officials linked with the murder. Sprague asked why FBI agents had found Boyle's fingerprints on the document. The courtroom stirred at the news, which Sprague had dramatically withheld until Boyle's testimony...
...part of its crossexamination, the defense introduced portions of the White House tapes, the first time they have been used at a trial. Peter Fleming, Mitchell's top attorney, produced a transcript of a taped conversation between Dean and Nixon on the day that Mitchell had called to complain about the grand jury. Although Dean told the President about Mitchell's anger, the tapes showed that he did not report he had been asked to call Kleindienst. This apparent lack of candor was pounced upon by Fleming, who got Dean to admit that the conversation had occurred...
...What struck you most about the interviews when you read them over in transcript form...