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...President agreed to give the committee all the evidence that the White House had given to Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. As tallied by Nixon, that included 19 White House tape recordings and some 700 documents. Nixon would, moreover, be willing to answer written questions from the committee. If there were still issues to be resolved after that, he promised, he would answer questions under oath in a White House meeting with Chairman Peter Rodino of New Jersey and the committee's ranking Republican, Edward Hutchinson of Michigan. Nixon termed this "a very forthcoming offer...
...would not allow anyone "to cart everything that is in the White House down to a committee and to have them paw through it on a fishing expedition." Next day his lawyer, James St. Clair, sent a letter to the committee rejecting its request for evidence beyond what Jaworski had acquired. St. Clair complained that the committee seemed to be asking for "hundreds of thousands of documents and thousands of hours of recorded conversations covering the widest variety of subjects." He suggested that the committee "determine what is an impeachable offense" before demanding the evidence. Implicit was the likelihood that...
...fact that the White House has agreed to give to the Judiciary Committee all of the evidence that it gave Jaworski does not lessen the significance of the decision that Sirica faces. The grand jury evidence presumably applies directly to the President's role. Its acquisition could eliminate the time-consuming need for the Judiciary Committee staff to scour all of the material involving all of Nixon's aides to determine what is relevant to impeachment. Moreover, the grand jury material must also contain testimony of various Nixon aides who appeared before it-again possibly reducing the need...
Seeking Evidence. If Sirica decides not to give the grand jury evidence to the Judiciary Committee, the committee will issue a subpoena for it. In any event, the committee will certainly push on to subpoena other White House documents and tapes that Jaworski has not been able to acquire. Jaworski too is determined to pursue his own requests for such material in court. At his press conference, Nixon distorted Jaworski's position in declaring that the special prosecutor had agreed that the grand jury had "all the information that it needed in order to bring to a conclusion...
...prosecutors, who use the institution's wide-ranging powers of subpoena to harass suspects against whom they have little real evidence. But several members of the Watergate grand jury have acquired such expertness and shown such diligence in questioning witnesses that they have become true partners of Leon Jaworski and the other prosecutors. Once last spring the jury members were so intent on their deliberations that they stayed in session until midnight, when they discovered that the cleaning people had locked them in. It took ten minutes of shouting and pounding before a janitor let them...