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...committee leaders hope to reach a compromise with St. Clair. They are willing to discard the idea of taking depositions. Instead, the staff would interview witnesses, who would not be under oath but would be asked to sign their statements. Since these would be less formal than depositions, no cross-examination would be appropriate. Whether committee Republicans will accept that proposal is still in doubt...
...doctors agree. Some feel that they are bound by the Hippocratic oath to do all they can to preserve life. Others, aware that an incurable condition today may be a manageable one tomorrow, fear making the wrong decision. "No matter how expert we are, we can't predict outcome," says Dr. Judah Folkman, surgeon in chief at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston...
...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...
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...