"As the pressure built up, Nixon's adamant refusal to let any of his aides testify before Ervin's committee became untenable. Hardly a legal scholar could be found to support this unheard-of claim of unqualified Executive privilege. Republican Senators began protesting just as vigorously as Nixon's Democratic critics. The President's brief and bland denials of White House involvement no longer satisfied anyone.
Finally, last week, Nixon spoke up...........
Looking tense and haggard, Nixon announced that all members of his staff will, after all, appear voluntarily before Ervin's committee ..." Time, April 30, 1973
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,907096,00.html
So much for Bush's Executive privilage and his malarkey about setting non-existing precedents.
2007-03-20
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