president. offering clemency to one of the burglars so he wouldn t talk, that would be obstruction. but colson goes to the president. the president promised colson executive clemency, in other words, a pardon for hunt with the understanding that colson would tell hunt and hunt would stay quiet. seven men went on trial today in a washington federal court charged with the break-in and burglary of democratic national headquarters in the watergate building last june. two are former white house aides. the other five were caught during the break-in at 2:00 in the morning wearing rubber gloves and carrying photocopying equipment. hunt and the cubans plead guilty. mccord and liddy plead innocent and decide to go to trial. and there was a very savvy judge sitting there. his name was john sirica. he was a no nonsense judge. he was actually a very conservative judge, throw the
so colson laid this all out in front of ehrlichman, and ehrlichman said you absolutely cannot mention clemency to the president. offering clemency to one of the burglars so he wouldn t talk, that would be obstruction. but colson goes to the president. the president promised colson executive clemency, in other words, a pardon for hunt with the understanding that colson would tell hunt and hunt would stay quiet. seven men went on trial today in a washington federal court charged with the break-in and burglary of democratic national headquarters in the watergate building last june. two are former white house aides. the other five were caught during the break-in at 2:00 in the morning wearing rubber gloves and carrying photocopying equipment. hunt and the cubans plead guilty. mccord and liddy plead innocent and decide to go to trial. and there was a very savvy judge sitting there. his name was john serika.