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...defense attorney that he asked a reporter only half facetiously: "Could you hear the prison doors clanking shut?" Nonetheless, the defense lawyer, John J. Wilson, was no less impassioned in attacking the Government's chief witnesses, Jeb Stuart Magruder and John Dean. Wilson described Magruder as a "professional liar" and Dean as a "mastermind of chicanery, of monkey business, of flouting the law, of having no conscience." The defense attorney dismissed the White House tapes as having recorded nothing worse than the sort of talk that takes place in any family at times of "trouble ... or tragedy." Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Arguments on the Eve of a Verdict | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

...contest. "I decided that instead of participating in my own mini-Watergate, I'd tell the truth, not cover up and not sit tight with my nice job." The next reporter who happened to call got quite a story. Sprague made it clear that he considered Fitzpatrick a liar. For good measure, he called his superior "the worst district attorney I've seen in 17 years." With that, Fitzpatrick demanded Sprague's resignation. When Sprague refused, Fitzpatrick fired him. Since the dismissal on Dec. 5, Sprague, 49, has had a variety of job feelers, including private-practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Tough, Honest and Fired | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

...Camara, a vocal critic of the regime and a friend of mine. They were furious about stories that I had filed to TIME and the Associated Press that they considered favorable to the Recife archbishop and unflattering to the dictatorship. They cursed Dom Helder, claiming that he was a liar when he accused the government of condoning torture. Their tirade was accompanied by more shocks and my screams. Twice during the afternoon they tortured me in front of Luis in an effort to get information from him. He refused to give in, though I could tell he was distressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Torture, Brazilian Style | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...that as Attorney General, Defendant John Mitchell should have ordered the Watergate conspirators out of his office when they discussed plans to bug Democratic national headquarters; 2) that the defense lawyers had done "a pretty good job" of trying to show that Conspirator John Dean had been a "liar" when he was trying to cover up the Watergate crimes; and 3) that, in order that the "TRUTH" could emerge in the trial, he was not going to adhere to "strict rules of evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: An Interim Judgment on the Judge | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

...personal independence and that of his entourage certainly seem unimpeachable, enough to satisfy Diogenes or W.C. Fields that here, at long last, is an honest man. Nixon continues to affirm his innocence; Ford alludes to Nixon's having been "shamed and disgraced." Nixon's press secretary was a notorious liar; Ford's first press secretary resigned when he felt he'd become a party to deceiving the public. Mrs. Johnson came out for beautifying America; Mrs. Ford comes out for legalizing abortion and ordaining women ministers. When reporters in 1962 asked him if American soldiers were fighting in Vietnam, Kennedy...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: A More Radical Dishonesty | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

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