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Up. >> i noted for example the coverage of the charles manson case when i was in los angeles. front page every day in the papers that usually got a couple minutes on the evening news. here is a man who is guilty, directly or indirectly of eight murders without reason. on his way back to washington from san cla memente called a n conference and the president made the flat statement that charles manson who is on trial for his life in los angeles is guilty, directly or indirectly of eight murders. ...

But when youre president, you cant prejudice the outcome of any on going criminal trial by making a statement like that in public. if somebody is on trial, if youre the president, you cant say that, a person is guilty. short of a pardon, thats the best way a president has to set somebody free by screwing up a prosecution that way. still, for whatever reason nixon said it, the white house spokesman tried to resend it right after nixon said it. nixon had to come out later on after his spokesman tr...

Interference with law enforcement. this is a big thing that presidents can get wrong, it could get you im peempeached a accidently springing charles manson from the murder trial. in nixons case it got his attorney general convicted. in nixons case it resulted in the first time we had a criminal conviction of a u.s. attorney general. >> for the first time in american history, a former attorney general of the united states richard pleaded guilty today to a crime. he admitted to federal judge georg...