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...COURTS COMPEL THE PRESIDENT
Even walking through a standardized part, Scott has enough natural presence to compel an audience's attention, and it is always pleasant to see Palance doing his thing as an oily heavy, though no one will ever accuse him of being an actor who has grown with the years. Dunaway, however, is inadequate, and Mills is stray-sheepish. In the end, one is reduced to admiring the scenery while puzzling over the disparity between the film's slick physical production and smoothed-down dramatic style, and the historical moment it purports to examine: a time that was down...
...simultaneously petitioned the U.S. District Court to compel the President to "show cause" why he should not comply with his subpoena. "Our view," said Cox, "is that the argument [based on the separation of powers] is not legally sound." Executive Branch employees have long been subject to subpoena by grand juries, he noted, adding that ever since Marbury v. Madison* the Executive has been accountable to the courts, "and this is merely a specific application of that principle." With appropriate irony, Cox's petition was heard by Judge John Sirica, who tried the original Watergate Seven last winter...
...White House "enemy" list because he opposed federal aid to parochial schools. "Here is a man listed among the opponents whose only offense is that he believed in the First Amendment and shared Thomas Jefferson's conviction, as expressed in the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, that to compel a man to make contributions of money for the dissemination of religious opinions he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical. Isn't that true...
...keep the investigation confined to those functionaries. About the same time, Dean said, the President ordered his staff to apply pressure to the House Banking and Currency Committee to abort its plans to hold Watergate hearings. The hearings were canceled when the committee voted against seeking subpoena power to compel testimony...