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...There were some hostile placards (among them: IMPEACH THE CROOK and CAPONE GOT 10 YEARS) but many more pro-Nixon demonstrators, including a group that chanted, "God loves the President." Then it was back to Washington, a change of suitcases, and off to his Key Biscayne home for the Easter weekend...
...clarifying the eviden?e sought. St. Clair wrote that this "goes a long way toward providing the additional specifications we felt were lacking in your original request." He said, "The additional material furnished will permit the committee to complete its inquiry promptly," after this week's congressional Easter recess. He did not say what that "material" would be. Nixon thus was reserving to himself the decision on what he finally would yield. St. Clair also seemed to link any further furnishing of evidence with his request that he be permitted to take part in the committee's impeachment...
...Easter recess to "decide on whether and how the issues can be narrowed." He and the committee Democrats caucused and agreed that St. Clair would be permitted to sit in on the presentation of evidence. Rodino said he would also convene the committee in the second week after the recess to "adopt rules to govern its procedures during the evidentiary hearings...
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...
...roll was called, only three Republicans dissented. Among them was Hutchinson, who explained later: "One, the subpoena is unenforceable. Two, they offered to turn over voluntarily the material, and I think in the end would have turned it all over. And three, the subpoena is not returnable until after Easter, and they offered us some material sooner...