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When the committee met, Doar related St. Clair's offer. Massachusetts Democrat Harold Donohue nevertheless quickly offered a motion to subpoena all of the requested tapes by April 25. That is three days after the end of the Easter recess, and it more than met St. Clair's original request for added time to review. Donohue then moved that debate on his motion be limited to a half-hour (less than a minute for each of the 38 members). That set off Republican complaints...
Dilatory Tactics. With partisan passions rising, Doar was asked his opinion on whether St. Clair's belated offer was acceptable. "My recommendation," he replied in his flat, unemotional manner, "is that the committee issue the subpoena for all six items today." Doar's patience and fairness in the inquiry so far has won respect among Republicans. Some then backed his view. Republicans Hamilton Fish Jr. and Lawrence Hogan complained about the "dilatory tactics" of St. Clair. Republican David Dennis nonetheless asked to subpoena only the first four items. Republican Delbert Latta, a Nixon loyalist, offered a motion that...
When the committee reconvened, Latta introduced his amendment, and it carried unanimously. The Republican resistance to subpoenaing all six items had virtually vanished. Robert McClory added a clinching revelation. He told the committee that during the lunch hour he had called St. Clair and asked whether Nixon's lawyer would put his latest offer in writing. St. Clair had refused. McClory's patience too thus had expired. "I think the offer is entirely too equivocal," he said of St. Clair's stand. When the roll was called, only three Republicans dissented. Among them was Hutchinson, who explained...
Mitchell's most stringent denial came on Sears' charge that the former Attorney General had agreed to help quash SEC subpoenas issued to Vesco and four key Vesco aides. Sears testified he told Mitchell that Vesco was threatening to expose the gift, and that Mitchell said he would go to White House Counsel John Dean to try to get the subpoenas delayed until after the election. Dean testified that he did indeed respond to Mitchell's request by asking Casey to hold up the subpoenas, but that Casey refused. For his part, Mitchell maintained...
...this may be like leaving the fox in charge of the chicken coop. In 1972, the General Accounting Office reported 30 "apparent" violations of the law in the presidential race, but Justice followed up only four. Complains Comptroller General Elmer Staats, head of the GAO: "We do not have subpoena powers. We have to ride with whatever information we can develop through open records. And we cannot prosecute...