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Faced with a parade of waffling witnesses, the Senators sought clarification from the White House and invited Peter Flanigan, President Nixon's top liaison aide with big business, to testify. But Attorney John W. Dean III, counsel to the President, declined on Flanigan's behalf, citing in a letter to Committee Chairman James O. Eastland "the principle that members of the President's immediate staff not appear and testify before congressional committees with respect to the performance of their duties." It is on such grounds that Presidential Assistant, Henry Kissinger, has avoided repeated invitations to testify before...
Such grounds might cover a Kissinger, but none would seem to apply to Flanigan's contacts with third parties in the ITT case. Flanigan has denied any active role, but has repeatedly declined to be specific...
Subpoena. The idea of executive privilege for Flanigan particularly angered North Carolina's Ervin, the Senate's reigning constitutionalist, who called the White House claim "absurd." Noncommittal until then on the Kleindienst confirmation, Ervin made it plain that he would not vote to confirm until Flanigan appears before the committee. "If the President wants to make his nominee for Attorney General the sacrificial lamb on the altar of executive privilege," he rumbled ominously, "that will be his responsibility and not mine...
...Flanigan's rejoinder to his critics in such cases is that "every decision that I have made I believe has been made in the public interest." It is a fact, moreover, that despite his obvious business bias, he is often hard-boiled with businessmen. Besides, Flanigan does frequently take the rap for decisions made higher up in the White House, where his loyalty is above question. He is extremely close to the President. He headed "Citizens for Nixon" in 1960, and when Nixon moved to New York after his defeat in California in 1962. Flanigan helped him raise funds...
Princeton-educated and a mod dresser by Administration standards, Flanigan plays tennis, skis and swims, often with his attractive wife Brigid and their five children. At home in fashionable Spring Valley Park in northwest Washington, he is considered pleasant by some of his neighbors, and humorless, autocratic and rude by others. On the job he is thoroughly hard-nosed, very much Richard Nixon's no-nonsense subaltern...