Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Immediately Jackson called Kissinger to testify in closed session before his Senate Arms Services Subcommittee. The room crackled with acrimony. Kissinger objected to being placed under oath and felt he was being treated rudely by Jackson. At a press conference later, Kissinger made a convincing case that nothing had been agreed upon with the Soviets that was out of line with the basic treaty. But Jackson claimed that the real issue was Kissinger's penchant for handling U.S. foreign policy as he saw fit, ignoring the bureaucracy and failing to get the approval of Congress...
Both Chestnut and Joseph Johnson, an official of the Mills campaign, refused to testify under oath before the committee, invoking the Fifth Amendment against selfincrimination. Mills declared that the draft report was "distorted" and leaked "to smear me." Humphrey said the report on his campaign was "filled with innuendoes and inaccuracies" and pointed out that it had not yet been considered by the seven Senators who make up the committee. But they could scarcely dispute the staffs conclusion: "It is not the Republican Party which is in need of remedy but rather the process by which we nominate and elect...
...intrusion on grand jury privacy. Jack Anderson published transcripts of some of the testimony given to the Watergate grand jurors. Woodward and Bernstein, desperate for new information when other sources went dry for a while, approached members of the same jury, attempting to get them to violate their oath of secrecy...
Scandal has spread to that bastion of model morality, the Boy Scouts of America. Last week the organization acknowledged that leaders in at least ten local councils had ignored the Scout oath to be "mentally awake and morally straight," and padded their membership rolls with tentfuls of nonexistent boys...
...Well, he in time may come to clear himself... he with his oath ... will make up full clear, whensoever he is convented." -Measure for Measure...