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William B. Saxbe, who was sworn in as U.S. Attorney General last week, scorned the subpoenas as a catchall amounting to a "fishing expedition." But the committee's deputy chief counsel, Rufus Edmisten, maintained that every item demanded was relevant to the investigation. This week the committee intends to ask Federal Judge John J. Sirica to order Nixon to surrender seven tapes-the same recordings previously given to a Watergate grand jury and also subpoenaed by the committee last summer. Later the committee will decide whether to request that Sirica force the President to turn over additional tapes...
...seat aldermanic chamber. This week more than 6,000 people from all parts of the city were due to fill the 4,600-seat Civic Center auditorium and adjacent rooms to see Jackson, white City Council President Wyche Fowler and 18 city councilmen (nine white, nine black) sworn...
...that Gerald Ford has been sworn in, Congress must accelerate its moves toward the impeachment of President Nixon. At the core of our democratic process is the right to make a choice. Implicit in this concept is the right to make the wrong choice. However, to continue to be a great nation we must show that we have the guts to right our wrongs...
...Sirica urged the Government's prosecutors to put certain Nixon officials "under oath in the grand jury room." At least one, former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, had been permitted by the prosecution to submit a sworn statement to the grand jury in lieu of testifying. "I am still not satisfied that all of the pertinent facts have been produced before an American jury," Sirica declared. He reminded the prosecutors of a list of persons he wanted them to question again...
...Then he settled down to spend a large part of this momentous day with wife Betty and their four children, who were home for much more than the holidays. They were soon to become the nation's second family. Gerald Rudolph Ford, 60, was getting ready to be sworn in as the 40th Vice President...