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(Aug. 24, 1992) Died:John Sirica
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Aug. 24, 1992 George Bush: The Fight of His Life
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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MILESTONES, Page 17
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<p> DIED. John Sirica, 88, the federal judge whose insistence on
learning the truth in the Watergate scandal brought down
Richard Nixon's presidency; in Washington. Sirica, a Republican
appointee, presided over the Watergate cases for five years,
from the break-in at the Democratic National Committee
headquarters to the cover-up trials. Impatient at times with the
evasiveness of the defendants, some of the most powerful men in
the government, Sirica frequently took over the questioning
himself, acting like a dogged prosecutor. His decision to
require Nixon to turn over the incriminating tapes, upheld by
the U.S. Supreme Court, led Nixon to resign. But Sirica, who was
TIME's Man of the Year in 1973, felt that justice was ill served
by that result. "He should have stood trial," Sirica wrote in
his memoirs. "No matter how great his personal loss, Nixon did
manage to keep himself above the law."
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