Word: nixon
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Kleindienst's stalwart conservative ideals, which landed him in the Nixon administration, are rooted in a background that begins with his grandfather...
Kleindienst says that as deputy attorney general, his initial Nixon administration appointment,he had a promising agenda of two or three programs that were quickly put on the back-burner...
Although Kleindienst was opposed to the Vietnam War, the Harvard Radcliffe Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) protested his involvement with the controversy through the Nixon administration...
...middle of a constitutional tug-of-war that U.S. Presidents have fought with the American judiciary since Thomas Jefferson rejected the idea that a sitting President could, or should, be compelled to testify in court. Five recent U.S. Presidents have given testimony in criminal cases. While Presidents Nixon and Reagan testified in courtrooms afterleaving office, Presidents Ford, Carter and Clinton gave videotaped testimony while serving. President Clinton did so in 1996, answering a Whitewater subpoena. In the present case, the Court gave Clinton at least one escape route: the justices gave the federal judge the authority to delay a trial...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In the most important decision regarding Presidential privilege since Richard Nixon was ordered to hand over the Watergate tapes, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Paula Jones can immediately pursue her sexual harassment case against President Clinton. Arguing that the Constitution protects sitting Presidents from having to answer civil lawsuits, the White House had sought to have the suit delayed until after he leaves office in 2001. Lawyers for Jones, a former Arkansas state employee who alleges that then- Governor Clinton exposed himself and propositioned her in an Arkansas hotel room in 1991, told reporters they plan...