Word: subpoenaing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House Divided? Prodded by O'Neill, Rodino has shown an increasing sensitivity about maintaining not only a nonpartisan approach but also the appearance of nonpartisanship. Last October, Rodino made the mistake of proposing that only he have the right to subpoena materials. When the committee voted on the motion, the Democrats predictably won by a straight party vote, 21 to 17. The Republicans then charged, not without some reason, that it appeared the Democrats were out to get the President by collecting only anti-Nixon evidence...
...first learned that the gap was 18 minutes long? Would an 18-minute erasure be much more alarming than the five-minute gap Miss Woods took responsibility for? Why was not the Haldeman portion immediately played on Oct. 1 to determine just how long the erasure was? When the subpoena for this entire tape seemed quite clear to later lawyers, why did Nixon and Buzhardt insist at first that it applied only to the Ehrlichman portion? Was this claim part of an intended cover-up of the Haldeman conversation wipeout...
Rodino said he will request a full House vote in about two weeks on a bill to give the committee special power to subpoena witnesses and documents for its impeachment investigation...
White House Counsel J. Fred Buzhardt accepted the committee's subpoena but gave no indication whether it would be honored. An aide said that Nixon considered the subpoena "incredible." If the White House does not obey it, however, Committee Chairman Sam Ervin has vowed to ask the courts to force the Administration to comply...
...Nixon is a guilty man and if evidence or testimony linking him directly with crimes is about to come out, he probably will resign. Or if the mathematics of the House is such that impeachment seems inevitable, then the threat of unlimited subpoena powers to get any document and talk to any witness may be more than he can or will want to withstand...