Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week when, on Friday, the Supreme Court dealt a sharp blow to Nixon's defense. The court announced that it would take the unusual step of bypassing the circuit court of appeals in order to speed a final decision on whether the President had the right to withhold 64 tapes from Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. While the short-run impact on the pace of the Rodino committee's work was unclear, the week's events may well have defined the outer limits of the President's ability to string out the proceedings...
...addition, the executive committee decided to withhold a degree from a graduating senior, subject to review prior to the May 20 commencement date...
Those setbacks for the President occurred under the pressure of rising public protests from members of Congress against what appeared to them to be legalistic maneuvering by the White House to withhold evidence. Largely as a result of these tactics, impeachment sentiment was gathering momentum in the House-and even leaders of the Senate talked matter-of-factly about the probability of a trial in that chamber later this summer to determine whether Nixon shall remain in office (see box next page...
What Jaworski Wants. If the White House fails to supply the evidence, Jaworski will almost certainly petition the Washington federal court this week to enforce the subpoena. This could touch off another round of court fights similar to those last summer, when Nixon tried to withhold subpoenaed tapes and papers sought by Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor whom Nixon fired for persisting in demanding evidence. Nixon had claimed that most of the material was protected by Executive privilege-a claim that both Federal Judge John J. Sirica and the U.S. Court of Appeals rejected. Presumably, the courts would...
...Horovitz deceived the public, and the wisdom of the proposed penalty, not the wisdom of revealing the truth, should be at issue. I believe that full airing of truth is in itself a paramount social good and only in exceptional circumstances far removed from this one would I withhold the facts. Perhaps Horovitz will oblige by presenting his own version of the role of truth and journalism in a future play...