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...Clair: Absolutely . . . The remedy is that he should be impeached...
Marshall: How are you going to impeach him if you don't know about it? You're on the prongs of a dilemma, huh? [When St. Clair demurred, Marshall pushed on.] If you know the President is doing something wrong, you can impeach him. But the only way you can find out is this way, so you don't impeach him. You lose me some place along there...
...Clair: Human experience has not demonstrated that's a fact. Very few things forever are hidden...
...Clair argued that Jaworski has not demonstrated a need for the subpoenaed conversations sufficient to overrule the President's presumed privilege. Procedural rules place a burden upon Jaworski to specify his reason for wanting each tape; he did so in a 49-page memo to Judge Sirica. Lacovara contended that since Sirica had found the explanations satisfactory, the Justices could only involve themselves in the question if they believed Sirica had abused his discretion. "This Prosecutor [Jaworski] has a plethora of information," countered St. Clair. "He says he wants to try the case with all the evidence. Nobody tries...
Marshall asked how St. Clair could be certain that the subpoenaed tapes should be protected by privilege when the President's lawyer readily admitted that he had not heard them himself. St. Clair claimed that it was enough to know that they were conversations between the President and his advisers. White wanted to know how Jaworski could be expected to specify what the conversations involved...