Word: subpoenae
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...will have to get a new lawyer. Even before the resignation was formally filed, James St. Clair announced that he no longer represented Nixon, though at Ford's behest he will stay on at the White House temporarily to supervise the indexing of papers and tapes still under subpoena. The new Nixon attorney will be needed immediately. The cover-up trial of John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman et al. is due to start in three weeks, and should the former President be a witness, he ought to have the advice of a fully informed lawyer before giving...
...danger that the inquiry would blow up in the hands of the Democrats if the nation perceived it to be a partisan vendetta against the President. Even so, Rodino was charged with partisanship himself early on, when he gaveled through decisions on party-line votes to give himself sole subpoena powers. Later, Rodino gave up that right and got strong bipartisan support for the eight subpoenas for presidential tapes, all of which Nixon refused to honor...
...well as his own position on the tapes subpoena; his counsel passed him a note reminding him of that fact...
White: He's never listened to the tapes. He doesn't know precisely what's on them. You would say that he could never subpoena a tape unless he had already gotten...
...evidence shows that Nixon again discussed the Watergate cover-up with Dean on March 17. A committee subpoena for the tape of that conversation was rejected by the White House. But during a later talk between Nixon and Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler, a tape of which was obtained by the Judiciary Committee, Nixon recounted that on March 17 he ordered Dean to "cut off any disclosures that might implicate him in Watergate." The Judiciary Committee states: "The President said that [the former deputy campaign director] Jeb Magruder 'put the heat on, and [the former treasurer of Nixon...