To set the record straight : the break-in, the tapes, the conspirators, the pardon by Sirica John J

Author:Sirica, John J
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994, Sirica, John J, Watergate Trial, Washington, D.C., 1973, Watergate Affair, 1972-1974
Publisher: New York : Norton
Published: 1979-04-05T16:00:00+00:00

to grips with the evidence from the White House. He was in for a big surprise.

On July 27, the House Judiciary Committee voted 27-11 to approve the first Article of Impeachment, charging that the president of the United States had "prevented, obstructed and impeded the administration of Justice. . . ." Six Republicans on the committee joined the majority. It was clear now that unless he resigned, President Nixon would eventually have to stand trial before the Senate of the United States for his role in the Watergate scandal. The political process of impeachment had finally caught up with the judicial investigation. The congressmen on the committee were saying, in effect, that the people of the country had had quite enough of Richard Nixon and Watergate. Two more articles of impeachment were approved later, one of which directly condemned the president for his continuing refusal to honor the subpoenas issued by the committee for his tape recordings. The impeachment vote had come without those subpoenas ever being honored; the grand jury's evidence had been more than convincing to the House committee members.

Throughout the next week, the final assessments of damage were taking place inside the White House. Acting on my directions, St. Clair at last began to listen to the tapes. Nixon himself, it turned out, had picked the June 23 tapes for special review back in May, when considering whether to fight it out with Jaworski over his new tapes subpoenas. Nixon had warned Buzhardt of problems involving those tapes after the Supreme Court's unanimous ruling. And now St. Clair and Alexander Haig reviewed them as well. I believe this was the first time that Nixon's closest aides all finally knew the full story of Watergate.

During his general review of the subpoenaed recordings, St. Clair discovered more gaps and missing tapes and reported them sheepishly to me in court. But what would have been a major news story some months before was now hardly noticed. And St. Clair himself knew that the gaps and missing tapes he had found were of little significance compared to what he had heard on the June 23 tape.

Except for the June 20 conversation with Haldeman that had been

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