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St. Clair himself ducks any explanation. "The question presumes that I didn't ask for full access to all the evidence considered to be relevant. I really wouldn't want to go any farther, because it verges on areas of my relationship with my client." St. Clair insists that he did not listen to the tapes himself for a simple reason: "It would have taken several months of full-time effort."
In retrospect, the calm Republican has no regrets about defending Nixon: "In all likelihood, I'd do it again." But won't ordinary legal work seem a bit unexciting now? "There'll be some aspects that will be anticlimactic, but they'll be welcome," says James St. Clair. "After seven months, a little anticlimax would go a long way."