Like millions of other Americans, Richard Nixon had hoped to get at least a brief taste of vacationing during the waning days of Augusta little golf, a little swimmingbut there was no sign of respite for the embattled President. First, Federal Judge John J. Sirica ordered that Nixon must surrender to him the secret White House tapes of private meetings about the Watergate scandal. The historic decisionthe first in which a judge has ever ordered a President to give up documentary evidence that he was unwilling to producebrought presidential lawyers rushing to...
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