Nixon to appear as witness

Washington -- FORMER President Nixon has been subpoenaed By his former top domestic aide, John Ehrlichman, to appear as a witness at his trial on Watergate cover-up charges, court sources said today.

Ehrlichman is due to go on trial with other ex-White House aides on September 9 before Judge John Sirica.

The subpoena was issued yesterday morning by the US district court here demanding Nixon’s appearance at the trial, the sources said.

Due to stand trial with Ehrlichman are former White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman, former, attorney general Hon Mitchell, Charles Colson, Robert Mardian, Kenneth Parkinson and Gordon Strachman, all former Nixon aides.

Special Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski has made no announcement on whether similar cover-up charges will be brought against Nixon.

Issuance of the subpoena for Nixon’s appearance came a day after it was announced that his chief Watergate counsel, John St. Clair, had resigned his post.

The White House announced on Wednesday that all of the former president’s tape recordings not under subpoena and not considered relevant to the Watergate inquiry had been declared his personal property. It would be up to Nixon decide how the tapes were to be disposed of.

The prestigious US Bar Association yesterday voted against granting legal immunity to Nixon.

On a voice vote and without debate, delegates to the annual convention of the 185,000-member lawyers’ association approved an antiimmunity resolution which APA president Chesterfield Smith said resulted from the revelations about the former president and Watergate. (Reuters-UP)

Source: Buenos Aires Herald
Buenos Aires, Friday, August 16, 1974