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William B. Saxbe, who was sworn in as U.S. Attorney General last week, scorned the subpoenas as a catchall amounting to a "fishing expedition." But the committee's deputy chief counsel, Rufus Edmisten, maintained that every item demanded was relevant to the investigation. This week the committee intends to ask Federal Judge John J. Sirica to order Nixon to surrender seven tapes-the same recordings previously given to a Watergate grand jury and also subpoenaed by the committee last summer. Later the committee will decide whether to request that Sirica force the President to turn over additional tapes...
Samuel Dash, chief counsel for the committee, Fred D. Thompson, its minority counsel, and Rufus L. Edmisten, a deputy counsel, will all attend today's conference...
There were other concerns as well. Massachusetts' Rufus King thought that impeachment would compromise the separation and independence of "the three great departments of Government." But "if he be not impeachable whilst in office," worried North Carolina's William Richardson Davie, "he will spare no efforts or means whatever to get himself re-elected...
Billy was not the only one fascinated by the combination circus and Chautauqua lecture that last week was playing Zanesville, Ohio, a small (pop. 39,000) city on the edge of Appalachia. Many of his friends and classmates spent hours assembling and disassembling Rufus, a life-size plastic model of a human body with removable heart, lungs, kidneys and brain. Adults, meanwhile, strolled through displays devoted to family planning, sanitation and cancer detection, lined up at booths for tests to detect diabetes and lung disease and learned how to recognize incipient heart trouble...
...witness is questioned, and often make suggestions of their own, they all must finally defer to the Senators. Staff work is demanding. Senior lawyers interview prospective witnesses, and junior lawyers help out with such questioning when they are not doubling as investigators. Dash, Thompson and Deputy Counsel Rufus Edmisten, who doubles as Ervin's right-hand man on the staff, spend little time on the Washington social scene but find wherever they go that people are full of questions-which they must nearly always refuse to answer. Ervin has imposed no hard and fast gag rule, but, says Edmisten...