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...Congress prepared for its late summer recess, it was obvious that the lawmakers had no intention of offering any advice on the question of immunity for Nixon, at least until national sentiment has cooled and crystallized. That shifted the burden, perhaps unfairly, to Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, who is charged with investigating and prosecuting all Watergate-related crimes. Understandably, he was in no hurry to make that decision. Yet it was widely believed among legal experts in Washington and indeed within his own staff that Jaworski had no choice: the evidence of criminal activity by the former President is sufficient...
...after it is sent to the President-unless Congress is adjourned at the end of that period. If such is the case, the President can kill a bill by simply pocketing it-doing nothing. Andrew Johnson was the first to think of using the pocket veto during an intrasession recess. Last week, in a historic decision, the third branch of Government ruled that the pocket veto can be used only when Congress has adjourned without setting a date of return...
...pocket veto. In the past, most measures that had been vetoed in this fashion were usually not vital to the national welfare. But Kennedy considered his own bill to be a major undertaking. In addition, Nixon had vetoed the bill in the course of a very brief recess. "If the pocket veto can be applied to a five-day adjournment," argued Kennedy, "why should it not apply to an adjournment of three days or one day or even overnight? At stake is nothing less than an opportunity to take a stand against one aspect of the continuing erosion of congressional...
...from the committee room. Mudd learned that a bomb threat was about to interrupt the meeting and that the bomb's alleged location was in "a CBS camera." "I guess that this is one of those things that television brings," he said on the air during the ensuing recess...
...situation was also serious in Ohio, where 7,000 A.F.S.C.M.E. members and 3,000 other state employees represented by other unions walked off their jobs. The strike began after the state legislature went into summer recess without voting a 310-an-hour increase for the 81,000 state employees. The strikers were particularly incensed because Ohio racked up an $80.5 million budget surplus in the past fiscal year. As the A.F.S.C.M.E. vowed that it would "shut down the State of Ohio," the strike hit prisons, mental hospitals and state-controlled liquor stores. Fearing that the strike would close the state...