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...came at the end of a week in which the President's chances of completing his second term in office fell to their lowest point since the Watergate scandal first threatened his political survival. Earlier in the week, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Nixon had no authority to withhold tape recordings of his White House conversations from Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski (see page 20). The ruling raised the possibility that more evidence damaging to the President may become available...
Definitively and unanimously, the court ended President Nixon's effort to withhold evidence from Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski in the Watergate case. Nixon was ordered "forthwith" to turn over tapes and other records relating to 64 White House conversations to Judge John Sirica's district court for use by Jaworski in the upcoming trials of six of the President's aides...
...specific legal questions before the court did not, of course, involve impeachment directly. As debated in a historic three-hour oral argument last week, the basic dispute was constitutional: Does the President have the power to withhold from use in the September conspiracy trial of six former aides 64 tape recordings of White House conversations?merely on his assertion that it is not in the public interest to release them? That extravagant claim of absolute Executive privilege, applying even to conversations that may have been part of a criminal conspiracy, had never been made to the court before...
...view that there was a decision to withhold the Goe memorandum at that point. It was not my belief that the decision was necessarily made for bad purpose. Certainly, reasonable people could disagree as to whether the government had an obligation to disclose it, but I did not think on the basis of the conversations I had with people in the government that that was an accidental inadvertence. I had been told that the government knew about the Goe memorandum. It is possible that I was overexuberant about...
Last week frustrated farmers were doing what they could to get prices moving up again. Farmers throughout the Midwest have been withholding their wheat from the market; they accused the Agriculture Department of depressing prices by issuing harvest forecasts that were too high. George Watts, a poultry industry spokesman, told the House Agriculture Committee that unprofitable prices had forced a large broiler producer to close its Tennessee plant, destroy 800,000 fertilized eggs and smother 300,000 newborn chicks. About 1,000 Western cattlemen threatened to withhold beef from market. The tactics were reminiscent of those that farmers used...