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...WITHHOLD EVIDENCE OF A CRIME...
Some prelates were plainly outraged. Bishop Joseph L. Hogan of Rochester, N.Y., wrote a "concerned" pastoral letter telling his parishes to withhold action until "new guidelines" were issued. Hogan added that he expected "some exciting dialogue and confrontation on the issue...
There was too the incessant secret taping, most notably by Nixon himself. The untested technicality of Executive privilege to protect the President's tapes, whatever its constitutional merits, seems insufficient cause to withhold evidence that might dispose of some of the accusations against him. Until and unless further evidence or explanations emerge from the President's expected statement, that is where the matter stands...
...memo that dealt with Hunt's shift from the White House to the Re-Election Committee's payroll, and another written by former White House Aide Gordon Strachan, under the principles enunciated by White House Attorney Charles Wright (see box). He said that the President would not withhold material dealing with his role as head of the Republican Party or extensively testified about by other witnesses and already made more or less public. Cox might later use those Nixon concessions as a precedent to establish his claim for other documents...
...Demand. Any attempt by Nixon to withhold the recordings from the staff of Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox would be even less defensible. Cox is charged with investigating crimes, and his office was created by the Executive Branch; thus there is no separation-of-powers reason for denying the tapes to his staff. Cox has already formally requested tapes relevant to his investigations, but at week's end had not yet received a reply. If his request is refused, Cox is expected to protest publicly, creating more pressure on the President...