Word: subpoenae
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...offers to furnish summaries of the desired conversations. The committee demands the tapes. The President declines again. The committee issues a subpoena for specific conversations. Nixon declines to honor the subpoena. The Ervin committee, by majority vote, cites the Secret Service officer who is now custodian of the tapes for contempt of Congress. Also, needing only a majority vote to do so, the full Senate confirms this citation...
...them speedily, since Cox apparently, if he would use them publicly at all, would do so only in the trials of indicted former Nixon aides. Such trials could be months away. If the President will not voluntarily give the tapes to Ervin, the committee will undoubtedly try to subpoena them. If that is resisted by the White House, it could take months for the committee to fight the issue through all the courts...
...concerned about national security and worried about missing the opening of a symposium in the Soviet Union on American aerospace products. When Ervin learned of this, he told his staff attorney: "You tell him that I order him to come and testify, and if we have to, we'll subpoena him and bring...
Because of that vacuum, constitutional scholars can scarcely be sure of anything. But there is general agreement that tapes and tape transcripts are legally the same as documents for the purposes of subpoena. And, for that matter, there is no major legal difference between a request for presidential papers and a request for his personal testimony. To date, there has never been a congressional subpoena issued to a President. Senator Ervin is confident that one could be, however. Such a subpoena, he argues, would not violate Executive privilege if it sought specified material that related only to campaign or allegedly...
...doctrine of checks and balances which afforded the Congress with the function of overseeing the operations of the Executive Branch. Clearly, the power to oversee the affairs of the administrative branch or to investigate the actions of officials in the executive branch must be reinforced with the powers of subpoena...