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Draw a Line. St. Clair's agility in mustering procedural arguments against the impeachment process was evident in a letter signed by Nixon to Chairman Rodino, firmly rejecting for the fourth time a Judiciary Committee subpoena of presidential tapes. Contending that the White House had extensively cooperated with the committee, the Nixon letter argued that he must "draw a line" to prevent "unlimited search and seizure" of Executive Branch files by the Legislative Branch. This was necessary to preserve the delicate separation of powers among the three branches decreed by the Constitution. Totally ignored in the letter...
...sure, the President couched his subpoena rejections in terms of principle rather than in the concrete concerns of survival. The three objects of his defiance...
During its first session, the committee agreed not to issue a blanket subpoena for the 107 tape recordings and documents that President Nixon has refused to give it. Instead, the committee will vote individual subpoenas throughout the hearings as gaps appear in the evidence already received from the White House, a Watergate grand jury and other sources. One of the first subpoenas is likely to include a request for the tape of a meeting between Nixon, former Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman and then-Attorney General John Mitchell on April 4, 1972. According to testimony given to the Senate Watergate...
Court Battle? Nixon's decision, in another transcript phrase, to "stonewall" his opposition, also applied to Jaworski's subpoena of tapes. Lawyer St. Clair presented a brief to Federal Judge John J. Sirica, arguing that Jaworski's subpoena for 64 additional tapes should be quashed because he had not shown that the material was relevant to the trial of the seven Nixon associates charged in the cover-up.* St. Clair also argued that all portions of the subpoenaed materials that had not been made public were protected by Executive privilege and could be kept confidential by the President. Sirica scheduled...
...they contend held wages down while letting corporate profits soar. In the same vote, the Senate also endorsed a measure to create a new agency to replace the COLC. It would have power to call public attention to inflationary moves by companies, unions and the Federal Government, and even subpoena businessmen and labor leaders to public hearings. But it could not issue any orders to roll back wage or price increases...