Nixon fights for Watergate records
The former American President, Mr Richard Nixon, has urged the United States Supreme Court to declare illegal a statute under which the Government has kept control of his Presidential records, including tapes relating to the Watergate scandal that forced him from office.
Mr Nixon’s lawyer, Mr Herbert Miller, said that the statute was an unconstitutional invasion of the former President’s personal privacy, degraded the Presidency, arid would have repercussions affecting all Presidents if left standing.
Mr Miller was one of four lawyers who spoke before the Court on the constitutionality of the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act, which was pushed through Congress in late 1974 to keep Mr Nixon (Torn having control of the (documents and tapes. Among the material are 800 reels of tapes from recorders Mr Nixon had secretly installed in the White House and at the Presidential retreat at Camp David and 42 million pages of written material.
The justices are expected to issue a decision in the case before they adjourn for their summer break around the end of June.
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