Word: dobrovir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon's arguments against surrendering the tapes was that they might be leaked, making private conversation public. Just such a leak occurred last week. A tape of a Nixon meeting with milk producers on March 23,1971, had been subpoenaed from the White House by Attorney William Dobrovir as evidence in a civil suit challenging the Administration's increase in milk-price supports. At a cocktail party in Washington attended by six other people, Dobrovir played five minutes of the tape "just...
Outraged Nixon aides suggested that Dobrovir had violated legal ethics, and two days later he was summoned to court. There he contritely conceded: "I made a very foolish mistake." Judge William B. Jones ordered all tapes and documents in the milk case to be sealed until presented in court...