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Impeachment Hearings: House Judiciary Committee, July 27, 1974
[00.33.38] Mr. DANIELSON. Proceeding on to the Senate select committee, we do have testimony from some of the tapes furnished to us by the White Douse that various times in the proceedings the President counseled his aides to, if they did appear, to stonewall it to say nothing, to say they could not recall, to take, the fifth amendment. to do anything but not let the plan come, out. This, I submit, is a, specific example of an effort to obstruct-and-interfere with the lawful functions of that committee . And, third , I refer to our own committee, the house Committee the Judiciary. In connection with the, coverup plan, which I submit is still going on, the President has openly and notoriously and knowingly persisted in defying this committee, In its lawful subpenas and has failed and refused to turn over the documents that we have requested, I respectfully idly submit that we should include within subparagraph 4 congressional committees. Mr. DENNIS. Mr. Chairman? The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Wiggins. Mr. WIGGINS. 'Mr. Chairman, I do not oppose the motion of the gentleman from California to include the language. The problem is will the prosecutors in this case be able to prove the charge. Let me review my recollection of the evidence with respect to whether the President interfered with a congressional committee. First in the context of the Patman hearings, bearing in mind, ladies and gentlemen, that there was no Patman hearing. What we had was an intention on the part of the Chairman, Mr. Wright Patman, to do something which he announced publicly, but the, members of his committee including six Democrats, would not go along with him. He was thwarted, not by the President, but by the Members of Congress who were on his committee, and that hearing, that congressional activity never got Off the, ground. I am not willing to attribute to the 20 members who voted against the chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee an corrupt motives and do not regard them as coconspirators in this case. Moving next to the Senate Select committee the only interference of the PI President with the conduct of the Senate select committee was for a period of time a consideration of the invocation of executive privilege with respect to his aides testifying before that committee. As we all know, shortly thereafter, that policy, which was characterized as stonewalling, it, that is the invocation of executive privilege--that Policy was abandoned by the President, and the policy thereafter was that all of his is aides would go before the Senate select committee and testify freely, without claiming privilege and, of course, we know that is, in fact, what occurred. The legal question, the legal question on the basis of those facts is whether or not we are going to punish the President in the context of impeachment for considering the invocation of executive privilege. Now' if so, future Presidents are in jeopardy, because the executive privilege concept is still alive and well in American jurisprudence. Finally, with respect to interference with this committee, I think that probably we will debate that more extensively in the context of a Separate article, and so I will not address myself to it now. But, in essence I say to my friend we are still talking about punishing the claim by the President of a right, to withhold evidence by reason of his assertion of either executive privilege or a claim of nonrelevancy, and I do not. understand that our system of Government prohibits the punishment of a good faith claim on a narrow and otherwise confused legal issue, and so in conclusion, I will say to my friend, I don't oppose Your amendment at all. I just simply indicate that the facts to date do not support it. Mr. DANIELSON. Mr. Chairman, may I respond very briefly? Mr. WIGGINS. You can if I yield to you and I will be pleased to do so. Mr. DANIELSON. I thank the gentleman. I am sorry. I thought he. had concluded. I do not disagree with My colleague's argument I want to make eminently clear and I thought I had that, the vote of the, members not to hold the committee meeting was certainly not, corrupt. They were-- the background to which I have alluded was not brought to' their attention mid I make no assertion and no implication that there was any Corrupt voting. On the other portion I agree that whether or not this article can be approved is a, matter of proof and that -would have to be resolved, of course, at the appropriate time, in the trial in the Senate. But we are bringing here on impeachment-all we are doing is bringing an accurate accusation. I think there is sufficient evidence to warrant that the matter be tried and therefore, I urge the adoption of my amendment. Mr. McCLORY Mr. Chairman? The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Illinois is recognized for 5 minutes. Mr. McCLORY. Thank you, Mr. Chairman . I intend to support this amendment. While I do not favor the. entire article, it Seems to me that nevertheless, in perfecting this article we should include the words "and congressional committees" as suggested by the gentleman from California, Mr. Danielson because in MY, opinion the defiance of this committee by the President in refusing to provide information to this committee is a, serious situation and one which in my opinion, suggests valid grounds for an article of impeachment. I propose at, a later time to offer a separate article on this ground and I would like to call attention to that fact that following the President's refusal to respond favorably to our subpenas, we notified the President on May 30 that this would be regarded as an impeachable offense, if he did not comply with our subpenas.
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