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...said McClory, "the prime example is right there." Democrat Seiberling declared that "without the power to investigate, the impeachment power is meaningless." Several other Democrats noted that since the Supreme Court had struck down Nixon's claim of absolute Executive privilege to withhold tapes from Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, he had no valid claim to keep them from the Judiciary Committee...
...stemmed from an attempt by Republican McClory to delay proceedings for ten days if the President would promptly agree to give the House Judiciary Committee the same tapes he had been ordered by the Supreme Court to yield to Federal Judge John J. Sirica for use by Special Prosecutor Jaworski in the impending Watergate cover-up trial. Actually, McClory conceded that he had little expectation of a favorable response from Nixon. McClory's tactic was aimed at strengthening a contempt of Congress article against the President he planned to introduce. The motion was defeated 27 to 11 in the first...
...personal income. The evidence shows that IRS investigators felt that without sworn testimony from the people who worked on Nixon's taxes about the numerous discrepancies in their statements to the IRS, there was insufficient proof that fraud had been committed. The IRS recommended to Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski that a grand jury look into the matter. That investigation is now under...
Definitively and unanimously, the court ended President Nixon's effort to withhold evidence from Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski in the Watergate case. Nixon was ordered "forthwith" to turn over tapes and other records relating to 64 White House conversations to Judge John Sirica's district court for use by Jaworski in the upcoming trials of six of the President's aides...
Archie Cox of Harvard, the blueblooded Elliot Richardson and Bill Ruckelshaus, a Hoosier Republican, gave individual honor a fresh luster. Leon Jaworski, the lawyer from Houston, showed principle and courage. And then House Judiciary Chairman Peter Rodino, out of the tough precincts of Newark, looking more like a Hollywood bit-player than a pol, steered his committee through investigation, hearing and vote with good will, restraint and dignity...