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Then Cox will have five days to file a reply. He was expected to argue that there is no general concept of Executive privilege implied in the Constitution. Moreover, even if such a privilege exists, he was prepared to argue, Nixon waived it by 1) allowing past and present aides to testify before the Ervin committee about their private conversations with him, and 2) by permitting H.R. Haldeman, a private citizen since his departure as White House chief of staff, to listen to tapes of presidential meetings. After receiving the Cox reply and giving the White House an opportunity...
Perhaps because Haldeman has been characterized as a former adman, he avoided any run-it-up-the-flagpole chatter. Still, he introduced some collector's items: "Zero-defect system," for perfection; "containment" for the withholding of information. Throughout the hearings, where precision would help, a file of worn metaphors and similes appears. Usually the phrases smack of the military or sports-two arenas notable for their threadbare lexicons. Porter thought of himself as "a team player," Dean as a soldier who had "earned my stripes." Ehrlichman considered himself proficient at "downfield blocking." J. Edgar Hoover was "a loyal trooper...
...instrumental as anyone in breaking open the case. The judge called for briefs to be submitted next week on Cox's petition. Over the weekend, the Ervin committee staff was laboring to prepare its case regarding the right to possession of the tapes and documents, and would probably file it in federal court at the end of the week. Thus on two fronts the constitutional battle was joined...
...Hoover were not close friends; "the last time they ever met was 30 years ago in Dinty Moore's," a restaurant in Manhattan. The committee produced a letter to Krogh in which Hoover offered to proceed with all relevant interviews. Ehrlichman dismissed this as "papering the file." The agent who authorized the Marx interview, TIME has confirmed, was disciplined by Hoover because he had ignored the director's cantankerous objection to the interview. But Marx had been quizzed and had revealed nothing of significance...
...deal is rich in lessons. One has already been applied: to prevent another unexpected foreign run on U.S. food supplies, the Commerce Department has set up a mandatory reporting system that requires grain exporters to file weekly reports of their sales...