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...whether this would violate attorney-client privilege. Before the committee could come to a decision, the White House declared that it no longer was making any such claim against divulging Dean's talks with the President, and that point-once strongly stressed by Nixon himself-is now moot...
...impeachment remains a serious business. The unsuccessful attempt to remove Andrew Johnson from office in 1868 had such grave consequences for American political life in the last half of the 19th century that the use of impeachment to redress presidential misconduct fell into general disrepute. Presidential impeachment became so moot a point during the 100 years after the Johnson affair that scholars failed to give the subject any extensive consideration...
...these conditions? There would be no way to know in advance whether while frozen she was really in a state of suspended animation or just postponed putrefaction. If she failed to revive when thawed a century later, the question of the doctor's liability by then likely would be moot, unless he too had been frozen successfully and subsequently revived. Suppose no cure had been discovered yet for his ailment, could he be brought back nevertheless ahead of time and made to stand trial? If he were able to show at his trial that the prosecution knew she died from...
...Perhaps moot revealing of the commitment to the power structure of the department, is the candid remark made to me some time ago by a prominent member of my department: "Sam, I certainly wouldn't vote for you if I thought you would attempt to disrupt the normal way of doing business in the department." (I replied that that was precisely what I had been trying to do for the past few years, and that I would expect to continue trying should I receive tenure.) Perhaps this is what was meant when during the debate on my rehiring a member...
...fundamental purpose of the new constitution had been to give Manila a parliamentary government; even that seems a moot point now. Marcos may rule by decree as long as he chooses -and that apparently is just what he intends to do. His supporters were claiming last week that the citizens' assemblies had indicated that the people were content not to have parliamentary elections for six or seven years. That would mean a considerable lease on power for the 55-year-old President, whose second term under the old constitution was due to expire...