Stonewall : the legal case against the Watergate conspirators /

New York : Simon and Schuster, 1977.

by Richard Ben-Veniste and George Frampton, Jr.

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Watergate Affair, 1972-1974.

l. The first special prosecutor

2. The script and the players

3. The case against Richard Nixon: "If you shoot at a king ..."

4. The linchpin - John W. Dean III

5. The bugging of Richard Nixon

6. Saturday night massacre or Saturday night suicide?

7. The tapes hearings: no more Mr. nice cuy

8. Archie's orphans meet the silver fox: Jaworski arrives

9. Cancer on the Presidency

10. Le grand fromage

11. The indictment-"By deceit, craft, trickery ..."

12. The unindicted co-conspirator

13. Resignation and pardon: President Ford adopts the monkey

14. The trial begins: a jury is selected

15. "Truth, ... t-r-u-t-h... truth".

Richard Ben-Veniste and George Frampton, Jr., both Assistant Special Prosecutors who guided the Watergate investigation, first under Archibald Cox, then under Leon Jaworski, relate here the complete behind-the-scenes story of the criminal investigation that ultimately led to the resignation of Richard Nixon. Never had a situation been so legally and politically explosive. Acting in the nare of the government, yet completely independent, the Special Prosecutor and his staff worked around the clock to piece together the truth--in spite of a consistently hostile and resisting White House. The tactics and the strategies used, the setbacks and surprises, are detailed here, and viewed and interpreted from the vantage point of the legal system. Valuable as a dramatic example of the workings of law, and for its implicit warning that though the system worked then, it nearly did not, Stonewall remains the definitive book on how a government of laws combatted a conspiracy of men. - back cover.

0671244043

410 pages ; 24 cm