Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Nixon is in the hospital, his lawyers will be questioned about his health. A California judge must decide whether to grant their motion to quash a subpoena for Nixon to appear in Santa Ana and give a deposition in a civil suit challenging security arrangements at a 1971 rally in Charlotte, N.C. The plaintiffs charge that their civil rights were violated when they were refused entry. Miller & Co. argue that giving the deposition would impose an "unreasonable burden" on their ailing client...
Eugene S. Pulliam, the Star's assistant publisher, reluctantly acknowledges that there are limits to a newspaper's role in battling corruption. "Our reporters are getting pretty damn frustrated," he says. "We are convinced that there are crooks there. But we can't subpoena, we can't grant immunity, and we can't indict. All we can do is report...
...Nixon case has raised the argument over that traditional practice in its most extreme form, since some of the Nixon material is relevant to ongoing criminal proceedings and perhaps to public inquiries and other lawsuits. If Nixon were to die, the papers and tape recordings not under subpoena could be destroyed immediately according to terms of the agreement. Therefore the ownership tradition-never settled either in Congress or the courts-is now under its most serious challenge...
...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...
...committee could be given the power to issue subpoenas and grant immunity from prosecution. There is precedent for Nixon to refuse to cooperate with a committee on grounds of Executive privilege. In 1953, President Truman cited the privilege in turning back a subpoena from the House Un-American Activities Committee. But the committee was investigating one of his appointments as President, and not his involvement in a well-documented criminal conspiracy, as is the case with Nixon...