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Last week Attorney General Richard Kleindienst expanded even further the President's already unprecedented claim for Executive privilege. Testifying before an unusual joint hearing by three House and Senate subcommittees, Kleindienst asserted that Congress has no power to hear from any one of the 2,500,000 federal employees if it subpoenas him and the President tells him not to appear. The Attorney General insisted that the doctrine involved "an enduring constitutional value" extending almost back to the Constitution's birth. But as Maine Democrat Edmund Muskie, keeping his short temper carefully in check, asked for legal precedents...
...Congress has no power at all to command testimony from the Executive departments?" Replied Kleindienst: "If the President of the United States so directs...
...Kleindienst: "If the President directs me not to appear, I am not going to appear...
...being grilled in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for his partisan handling of the agency and the Watergate investigation. But his testimony had deeply embarrassed several top Administration officials and disillusioned some of his supporters in Congress. Finally, at the White House's bidding, Attorney General Richard Kleindienst last week drove to the Capitol Hill office of Senator James O. Eastland, chairman of the committee, to sound out Gray's chances. Eastland told Kleindienst that he would make another try to get the confirmation passed, but that he saw no hope...
...federal grand jury is looking into evidence of even more corruption. Thompson says that the possibly illegal dealings involve race-track stockholders and some Illinois legislators, both Democrats and Republicans. He vows that other criminal indictments will be forthcoming. As he recently promised Attorney General Richard Kleindienst: "I'm going to kick ass until I get rid of the crooks...