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...Agnew-style effort at plea bargaining is also problematic. For one thing, as University of Chicago Law Professor Gerhard Casper wonders, "who would negotiate it? In a sense Nixon would be negotiating with himself. Jaworski is an appointee to the Attorney General, who is in the chain of command to the President." Stanford Criminal Law Professor John Kaplan adds: "As a practical matter, it might very well be that the attempt would ensure an impeachment conviction." Some Washington observers believe that the only possibility is an informal assurance by various officials that Nixon would not be pursued. Jaworski is reportedly...
...Now?this brings us to a basic command decision with regard?with regard to what you do about White House people. The main thing is [inaudible] and you can look at it in terms of the fact that anybody who this touches should go out?without [inaudible] . . . Let's suppose?just take Ehrlichman is a case in point?that this thing brought in by [inaudible] that proves to be [inaudible] don't get anything else on Ehrlichman then the question is that nevertheless that in itself would raise a cloud over Ehrlichman...
...husband to wife to child. That is "God's chain of command," the most controversial of the "universal, underlying, nonoptional principles" of family life that are being proclaimed by the Rev. Bill Gothard, 39, to mass audiences in two dozen cities from Seattle to Philadelphia. This year as many as 500,000 people, some via closed-circuit TV, will attend Gothard's traveling "Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts," which consists of 28 hours of lectures in a week's time (basic cost for the course: $45). These throngs hear about the lectures only by word of mouth...
...from other countries, and would fight for implementing that policy if I could. But how can anyone fight for the reduction of armed forces when a certain orator * is preaching quite the opposite? How can anyone propagate the doctrine I've been advocating if the troops under the command of this orator are stationed on the territory of other countries? We can't make propaganda [for peaceful coexistence and noninterference] and then turn around and put our troops in other countries. Under such circumstances, our propaganda tends to be regarded with suspicion. It accomplishes nothing and earns...
...view of this curt command, it would be hard to argue, as the President has, that he did not approve of the hush money. This simple order, allowing no misinterpretation by Dean, may constitute the single most impeachable offense in the entire transcript...