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Misused Powers. As for the CIA's domestic transgressions, the commission reportedly absolved the agency of much blame, noting that Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon drove the CIA to overstep its bounds. Johnson had an obsessive belief that foreign money and influence must have been behind the students' revolt and the antiwar movement. Nixon also prodded the CIA to misuse its powers and spy on dissenters. The commission called for tighter controls on White House access to the agency and tighter congressional oversight of its operations...
Even in the case of the only professor in the law school who insists on not being addressed by his first name, Thomas J. O'Toole '42, students are not reluctant to overstep rules of classroom decorum. One student describes O'Toole as a "Harvard professor type" and a "pretty straight lawyer." His formal style of instruction often clashes with the demands of students for more freedom. A few weeks ago, a group of women could no longer tolerate his invariable use of "he" to refer to the abstract parties of the contracts he was describing. When O'Toole said...
...first re-polling the senior class. The committee should then organize a second vote. Even if the poll comes too late for the committee to invite one of the class's clear-cut choices, it would be better for the committee to invite no speaker at all than to overstep its limited legitimate authority and lend further prestige and publicity to Richardson...
Though Woodward said he believed the Post reporters' investigations had not interfered with individual liberties, Bernstein said that the lines of propriety are so fine that "unfortunately there are times when we overstep our bounds and cross over somebody's privacy...
...tool to be used at all, but only to show that it is a tool to be used carefully. Throughout his book he maintains that the power to impeach is a necessary one, both to insure proper administration of office and to guarantee that the executive will not overstep his constitutional authority...