Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. As tallied by Nixon, that included 19 White House tape recordings and some 700 documents. Nixon would, moreover, be willing to answer written questions from the committee. If there were still issues to be resolved after that, he promised, he would answer questions under oath in a White House meeting with Chairman Peter Rodino of New Jersey and the committee's ranking Republican, Edward Hutchinson of Michigan. Nixon termed this "a very forthcoming offer...
...more than 100 years, Robert E. Lee has been something of a man with out a country. Never mind that he was one of the most illustrious and magnanimous generals in U.S. history. After he surrendered his sword at Appomattox, he apparently failed to take an oath of loyalty to the U.S. Constitution, which many Confederates were obliged to do if they wished to regain the full U.S. citizenship that they had forfeited. Up to his death in 1870, he was denied citizenship. Ever since, Southern sympathizers have been trying to recover it for him posthumously...
Their seemingly lost cause revived in 1970 when a researcher discovered that there was a Lee loyalty oath, after all, buried among State Department records in a file at the National Archives...
Initially, before he knew of the oath, Lee had written to the White House requesting amnesty. Later, he went to a notary and swore his allegiance, but somehow the oath never caught up with the am nesty petition...
...crime of which he has knowledge. While the law is widely ignored, it would seem a serious matter for a President to take no action when his own aides report criminal activity to him. Although Weicker does not say so, such failure might violate the President's oath to uphold...