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...handle the latest stage of his Watergate defense, Nixon hired yet another attorney: Republican James D. St. Clair, 53, a meticulous and highly respected trial lawyer from Boston. He will take over from J. Fred Buzhardt and Leonard Garment. Buzhardt was named to John W. Dean's old job of White House counsel, in which he will handle the President's routine legal work. Garment was appointed a presidential assistant in the areas of civil rights and the arts. For months, Nixon had been unhappy with his defense team's work; White House aides went...
...court was not at all happy, however, when another White House counsel, J. Fred Buzhardt, informed Sirica on Oct. 30 that two of the nine subpoenaed tapes were "nonexistent" because they had never been made. Sirica scowled even more sternly on Nov. 21 when Buzhardt...
White House Counsel J. Fred Buzhardt accepted the committee's subpoena but gave no indication whether it would be honored. An aide said that Nixon considered the subpoena "incredible." If the White House does not obey it, however, Committee Chairman Sam Ervin has vowed to ask the courts to force the Administration to comply...
...tried to pin the blame on Secretary Rose Mary Woods, who admits to the possibility of having accidentally erased "four to five minutes" of the tape by mistakenly pressing the "record" button, evidently while keeping her foot on the pedal that advanced the tape. Presidential Chief Counsel J. Fred Buzhardt buttressed the theory, testifying that he had re-created a loud hum on the erased tape by using Miss Woods' electric typewriter, high-intensity lamp and Uher 5000 tape recorder...
Haig's testimony was full of minor conflicts with what Presidential Lawyer J. Fred Buzhardt had previously said, and contained frequent memory lapses remarkable in a bright West Point graduate who was noted for his organizational competence as Henry Kissinger's longtime aide. For example, he could not recall what he discussed with Nixon, Rose Mary Woods and Press Secretary Ron Ziegler during a 24-minute conference the evening of the day he told Nixon that the gap on the tape lasted for 18 minutes-just three weeks before his courtroom appearance. Often Haig fidgeted, toying with...