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- Part of White House Staff Member and Office Files (Nixon Administration), President's Personal Files
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OCR Page 1 of 6I have several matters to announce today.
The first relates to the appearance of White House
people before the Senate Select Committee.
For several weeks Senator Ervin and Senator Baker and
their counsel have been in contact with White House representa-
tives, Mr. Ehrlichman and Mr. Garment. They have been
talking about ground rules which would preserve the separation
of powers without suppressing the facts.
I believe the committee ground rules as adopted totally
preserve the doctrine. They provide that the appearance by a
witness may, in the first instance, be in Executive session if
appropriate.
Second, Executive privilege is expressly reserved and
may be asserted as to any and every question.
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