Word: subpoenaing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...showdown was thus rapidly approaching over the committee's ability to extract evidence from the White House. Any failure by Nixon to comply with the subpoena would carry serious implications for him. Refusal to produce legally subpoenaed evidence creates an assumption that the withheld material is damaging to the withholder's case. In a sense, such an act forfeits the law's normal presumption of innocence until proved guilty. Rodino does not intend, however, to seek any immediate contempt of Congress citation against the President if he fails to honor the subpoena. That possibility would be held...
...rough Watergate week for President Nixon. A grand jury report and a satchel of evidence on his role in the cover-up conspiracy were turned over to the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment investigators. Then, after a short delay, Nixon backed down and submitted to a subpoena for more evidence from Leon Jaworski, the persistent special prosecutor, rather than face a new, and probably losing, court battle. Almost as surely, he will soon be forced to stop resisting similar requests from the impeachment committee for more tapes and documents...
...rising congressional impeachment pressure could not be ignored, and Nixon gave up some tactical territory. He and St. Clair had for so long resisted a request by Jaworski for 27 tapes and various documents that the special prosecutor finally issued a subpoena to get some of the documents. St. Clair first asked last Monday for a delay in the subpoena's return date, and Jaworski agreed. As the new deadline approached on Friday, Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler offhandedly announced without explanation that the subpoenaed evidence would be surrendered. The documents, dealing primarily with the use and possible abuse...
What Jaworski Wants. If the White House fails to supply the evidence, Jaworski will almost certainly petition the Washington federal court this week to enforce the subpoena. This could touch off another round of court fights similar to those last summer, when Nixon tried to withhold subpoenaed tapes and papers sought by Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor whom Nixon fired for persisting in demanding evidence. Nixon had claimed that most of the material was protected by Executive privilege-a claim that both Federal Judge John J. Sirica and the U.S. Court of Appeals rejected. Presumably, the courts would...
...subpoena deals primarily with the handling of campaign funds. Jaworski is also seeking further evidence, and he may subpoena that as well. The evidence being sought includes tapes and documents related to: 1) the possible "sale" of ambassadorships to large contributors to Nixon's political campaigns; 2) the Administration's settlement of an antitrust suit against ITT after a large campaign contribution was pledged by the company; 3) meetings at which Nixon and his aides discussed increased dairy price supports and a $2 million pledge of campaign aid by milk producers; 4) Nixon's notations from...