TIME Covers Watergate

July 22, 1974: Nixon and the Court
The specific legal questions before the court did not, of course, involve impeachment directly. As debated in a historic three-hour oral argument last week, the basic dispute was constitutional: Does the President have the power to withhold from use in the September conspiracy trial of six former aides 64 tape recordings of White House conversations, merely on his assertion that it is not in the public interest to release them?
From: "The United States v. Richard M. Nixon, President, et al.", July 22, 1974

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