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Parade. The President will take his oath of office and make his Inaugural speech at the east front of the Capitol. After a quick lunch with Congressional leaders, who are expected to be too polite to talk about their current disagreements with Nixon, he will review the parade. (It is not true, as a Washington wisecrack about Nixon's recent isolation has it, that the parade will be routed past Camp David and he will send aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman out to review...
...fact is that doctors are graduated from medical school with a built-in dilemma. Their Hippocratic oath requires them not only to preserve life but also to relieve suffering. With the span of life being lengthened and with medical wizardry increasing its skills, there will be more and more cases in which one Hippocratic obligation is in direct conflict with the other. Whatever value may be put on George Bernard Shaw's opinion of doctors, he had sound advice for patients: "Do not outlive yourself...
...judge subpoenaed him, claiming that he had not only lost the protection of Section 1070 but that he was also an accessory to a violation of the court's gag order. Although Farr submitted the names of six attorneys and said that his sources were among them (under oath all denied involvement), Judge Older ordered him jailed until he specified his informants. In December 1971, Section 1070 was amended to shield former newsmen from contempt citations, but that same month, in upholding Older's decision, a state appeals court ruled that the "vital power of the court...
Matlack added that although Massachusetts voluntarily suspended the oath requirement for almost three years pending a U.S. Supreme Court decision on its constitutionality, employees hired during that period now face dismissal unless they sign the oath retroactively...
...Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the loyalty oath last April in a four-to-three decision...