February 25, 1974 and April 11, 1974, Requests of Judiciary Committee
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OCR Page 1 of 66RESPONSE OF PRESIDENT RICHARD M. NIXON TO
A SUBPOENA OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR PRO-
DUCTION OF RECORDED PRESIDENTIAL CONVERSATIONS
On April 11, 1974, the Committee on the Judiciary of the
House of Representatives of the Congress caused a subpoena to be
issued to the President of the United States, returnable on April 25,
1974. The subpoena called for the production of tapes and other
materials relating to forty-two Presidential conversations. With
respect to all but three of these conversations, the subpoena called
for the production of the tapes and related materials without regard
to the subject matter, or matters, dealt with in these conversations.
In the President's view, such a broad scale subpoena is unwarranted.
As. the U. S. Court of Appeals in Nixon vs. Sirica has stated, "whole-
sale public access to Executive deliberations and documents would
cripple the Executive as a co-equal branch", and as the President
has repeatedly stated, he will not participate in the destruction of
the office of the Presidency of the United States by permitting unlimited
access to Presidential conversations and documents.
The President, on the other hand, does recognize that the
House Committee on the Judiciary has constitutional responsibilities
to examine fully into his conduct and therefore the President has
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