Word: subpoenaing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...side of the pedal also permits a rapid rewinding of the tape for replaying a portion. She had completed transcribing the Ehrlichman conversation, she said, when the tape ran on into Haldeman's talk with the President?a portion, she testified, that Haig had told her was not under subpoena. The last she heard, she said, was a chat between Haldeman and Nixon about Ely, Nev., Pat Nixon's birthplace...
...some difficulty with the Haldeman portion of the tape, although he claimed not to have been aware of the full 18-minute problem until mid-November. His reason, too, for not telling the court about this much sooner was that he thought the Haldeman conversation was not under subpoena. Sirica seemed openly skeptical. The subpoena had asked for the tape of a "meeting of June 20, 1972 in the President's Executive Office Building office involving Richard Nixon, John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman from 10:30 a.m. to noon (time approximate)." Cox amended the subpoena on Aug. 13 to make...
...court, Prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste urged Sirica to take immediate custody of all of the subpoenaed tapes. Buzhardt objected that several conversations not under subpoena were also on the reels containing the desired recordings. Unmoved, Sirica indicated he would order the reels subpoenaed if they were not voluntarily turned over to him by Monday of this week. He added sourly: "This is another instance that convinced the court that it must take steps to safeguard the tapes, to make certain nothing like this happens again between now and when we actually listen to the tapes...
...meeting Chairman Peter Rodino, a Democrat, sought the committee's authority to let him personally subpoena documents and information leading up to a presidential impeachment proceeding. That authority carries less power than it might imply, since the committee cannot subpoena evidence for an actual impeachment hearing; the full House membership must vote the committee such powers at a later date...
Rodino got his subpoena power, but in a 21-17 vote that was on strictly partisan lines. The Democratic leadership in the House is gravely worried about provoking such splits, fearing that they would only exacerbate divisiveness throughout the nation. Additionally, any conviction of an impeached President would obviously require a substantial number of Republican as well as Democratic votes. That means, as Rodino repeatedly reminded his colleagues, that "we'll have to get bipartisan support...