Nixon’s
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WASHINGTON (UPI) — President
Nixon has challenged the Senate
Wagergate committee and special
prosecutor Archibald Cox in asserting the
supremacy of his office over their requests
for his taped conversations with former
White House aides implicated in the
political scandal.
The President faces two subpoenas for
the tapes which he says are now under his
“sole control” in the White House com
plex. His two letters to the panel and the
prosecutor made it clear that he is ready
for a constitutional confrontation before
the Supreme Court.
Nixon signalled his “get tough” stand
Friday when he came out of Bethesda
Naval Hospital last Friday after a bout
with viral pneumonia.
The President, emphasizing that he was
back in good health by conducting a series
of pep talks with his top advisers, then
went off to his Camp David mountain-top
retreat where he conferred with his team
of lawyers and other advisers, including
Gen. Alexander Haig, his chief of staff,
and press secretary Ronald Ziegler on the
letters he was drafting to the committee
and Cox rejecting their bids for the tapes.
The President’s letter to Sen. Sam Ervin
Jr., chairman of the Watergate com
mittee, was uncompromising and ap
peared to force a confrontation with
Congress.
Warren revealed to reporters that Nixon
If it doesn’t get the tapes,
committee has three options
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Senate
Watergate committee has three legal
options to pursue if President Nixon
does not comply with a subpoena to
surrender White House tapes related to
the bugging scandal.
Committee lawyers described the
options this way:
Contempt — It is unlikely the Senate
will hold the President of the United
States in contempt, but the option is
available. The action would first have
to be approved by the committee, then
debated and passed on the Senate floor.
Suit — If the President takes no ac
tion on the subpoena, the committee
could file suit seeking a “declaratory
judgment” or a court ruling it has a
constitutional right to the tapes, and an
injunction ordering the President to
turn the tapes over to the committee.
Motion — President Nixon may file a
motion to quash the subpoenas on
constitutional grounds of separation of
powers. The committee would then go
to court to settle the issue of whether it
has a right to them.
White House lawyers have until 10
a.m. Thursday to respond to the sub
poenas. If they respond negatively, the
committee will hold an executive
session, probably Friday, to discuss its
next legal move.
had listened to a replay of the tapes in
early June after he issued his May 22
statement categorically denying any prior
knowledge of the Watergate affair or the
subsequent coverup.
The press spokesman declined to discuss
what led Nixon to listen to the tapes after
he had searched his memory so arduously
to lay down the facts in the May 22
statement.
From a variety of sources, there were
indications that Nixon has decided to fight,
apparently relying on the Constitution to
back him up. He also hopes that he will be
able to swing public opinion in his direction
although he is faced with polls showing a
weakening of his support, a drastic drop in
his popularity and a telling loss in the
confidence of the people in his ad
ministration.
He has promised that he will address the
subject of Watergate publicly at an ap
propriate time during the hearings.
Warren said Monday neither the date nor
the forum for Nixon’s next review of the
scandal in terns of his own presidency has
been determined.
But right now, Nixon, who has always
said that he relished the battle, now faces
the biggest one of his career — one, in fact,
on which the history of the Presidency and
its power may turn.
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