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Meet the Press. Reporters Interview James D. St Clair, an employee of the U.S. government who earns $42,500 a year trying to keep the chief out of jail. Ch. 4, 2 p.m. 1/2 hour...
...partisan split threatened again, however, when St. Clair made a desperate last-minute attempt to arrange a deal with the committee. At 9:57 a.m., just 33 minutes before the committee was to consider the subpoena issue, St. Clair telephoned Doar. The review of the tapes, he now revealed, could be completed in "a day or two," after all, and he would then "try" to provide the tapes specified in the first four of six requests put forward by the committee staff. St. Clair asked: Wouldn't that make a subpoena unnecessary? Replied Doar: "I cannot speak...
When the committee met, Doar related St. Clair's offer. Massachusetts Democrat Harold Donohue nevertheless quickly offered a motion to subpoena all of the requested tapes by April 25. That is three days after the end of the Easter recess, and it more than met St. Clair's original request for added time to review. Donohue then moved that debate on his motion be limited to a half-hour (less than a minute for each of the 38 members). That set off Republican complaints...
Dilatory Tactics. With partisan passions rising, Doar was asked his opinion on whether St. Clair's belated offer was acceptable. "My recommendation," he replied in his flat, unemotional manner, "is that the committee issue the subpoena for all six items today." Doar's patience and fairness in the inquiry so far has won respect among Republicans. Some then backed his view. Republicans Hamilton Fish Jr. and Lawrence Hogan complained about the "dilatory tactics" of St. Clair. Republican David Dennis nonetheless asked to subpoena only the first four items. Republican Delbert Latta, a Nixon loyalist, offered a motion that...
When the committee reconvened, Latta introduced his amendment, and it carried unanimously. The Republican resistance to subpoenaing all six items had virtually vanished. Robert McClory added a clinching revelation. He told the committee that during the lunch hour he had called St. Clair and asked whether Nixon's lawyer would put his latest offer in writing. St. Clair had refused. McClory's patience too thus had expired. "I think the offer is entirely too equivocal," he said of St. Clair's stand. When the roll was called, only three Republicans dissented. Among them was Hutchinson, who explained...