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...White House fails to supply the evidence, Jaworski will almost certainly petition the Washington federal court this week to enforce the subpoena. This could touch off another round of court fights similar to those last summer, when Nixon tried to withhold subpoenaed tapes and papers sought by Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor whom Nixon fired for persisting in demanding evidence. Nixon had claimed that most of the material was protected by Executive privilege-a claim that both Federal Judge John J. Sirica and the U.S. Court of Appeals rejected. Presumably, the courts would do so again...
...dispute dates to 1939, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 appointed Archibald Macleish, now Boylston Professor emeritus of Rhetoric and Oratory, to head the national library. Librarians were offended by the choice...
...indeed, it did not? One answer may lie in the fact that Haldeman was testifying only a couple of weeks after the existence of the secret Nixon taping system had been revealed to the Ervin committee. Nixon later fought vainly on two court levels to withhold his tapes from Archibald Cox, then the Watergate special prosecutor. He yielded seven of them, including the one of the March 21 meeting, only after the public uproar that followed his firing of Cox, who was seeking the tapes and other White House evidence. At the time he was before the Ervin committee, Haldeman...
...special prosecutor's staff of 38 lawyers needed much reassuring. Outraged and discouraged by the firing of Archibald Cox, the attorneys were fearful that the Texan might slow down the investigation. Their anxieties were soon allayed: one of his first orders was for everyone on the staff to proceed full speed ahead in his previously assigned area of investigation...
...deceased in fact is a professor of logic named McFee. Like McFee, all the Jumpers are professors of philosophy at the college where Dotty's husband teaches. They have been organized as gymnasts by the vice chancellor of the college, an unscrupulous bounder, lecher and pragmatist called Sir Archibald Jumper. "McFee's dead," Jumper announces. "Shot himself ... in a plastic bag." The question is why. "It's hard to say," replies Jumper. "He was always tidy...