Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...COMMISSION. Ford could appoint a commission to lay bare the full Watergate story, much as the Warren Commission (of which Ford was a member) studied the assassination of President Kennedy. From Congress, the commission could obtain subpoena power to compel Nixon and his former associates to testify and surrender all of the evidence in their possession. Congress could also give the commission authority to grant witnesses immunity from prosecution so that Nixon's former aides, like himself, could not refuse to testify on the basis of constitutional rights against selfincrimination...
...that the grand jury was virtually certain to indict Nixon and the list of charges could be lengthy and varied. The White House believed that the indictments would be handed down as soon as the second week of September?this week?although Jaworski in fact did not intend to obtain them until after the Watergate cover-up jury was sequestered in October. Still, it was clear that Nixon could be spared only by one act by one man: a pardon from Gerald Ford...
...have been advised and am compelled to conclude that many months and perhaps more years will have to pass before Richard Nixon could hope to obtain a fair trial by jury in any jurisdiction of the United States under governing decisions of the Supreme Court...
...tissue had first been delivered to the Pathology Department at BCH--as it is supposed to be transferred--pathologists would have filled out death certificates and the alleged dissection would thus have been authorized. The "obvious crux" of the case, says Flanagan, is that the doctors failed to obtain such authorization...
...Year Plan. These changes aim, in part, at improving living standards. Although Cubans now eat better, are healthier and claim the highest literacy rate in Latin America, there are still enormous shortages of all kinds of goods. Only through normalized relations with other nations of the hemisphere can Cuba obtain the products and technological and managerial expertise its economy needs...