Subpoena on Nixon
(N.Z. Press Assn—Copyright I LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30. A California Judge, setting up a historic executivejudiciary clash, studied methods today to serve a subpoena on President Nixon to testify at John Ehrlichman’s trial for burglary.
The White House already has said that the subpoena would not be obeyed. It was the first time in 156 years—and the first time in a state court—that a subpoena was drawn up for the President, and only the third such action in the history of the Republic. Citing a 167-year-old precedent involving President Thomas Jefferson, Judge Gordon Ringer of the Supreme Court yesterday granted a request by Ehrlichman’s lawyers to subpoena Mr Nixon as a “material witness” at the Daniel Ellsberg burglary trial. White House officials said in Washington that the subpoena would be “respectfully declined” on constitutional grounds, presumably the separation of powers.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33447, 31 January 1974, Page 17
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