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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. a few minutes later, his press secretary called back and said he was retracting the president's stat...

But when you're president, you can't prejudice the outcome of any on going criminal trial by making a statement like that in public. if somebody is on trial, if you're the president, you can't say that, a person is guilty. short of a pardon, that's 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 tried to take it back and say he didn't really mean to say what he had said, but he had said it. ...

Interference with law enforcement. this is a big thing that presidents can get wrong, it could get you i'm peempeached a accidently springing charles manson from the murder trial. in nixon's case it got his attorney general convicted. in nixon's 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 george heart in washington he with held information from the senate judiciary committee during his con...