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Subpoena issued by the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities to President Nixon, Communications Request, July 23, 1973

Subpoena issued by the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities to President Nixon, Communications Request, July 23, 1973
Subpoena issued by the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities to President Nixon, Communications Request, July 23, 1973
Subpoena issued by the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities to President Nixon, Communications Request, July 23, 1973

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Title

Subpoena issued by the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities to President Nixon, Communications Request, July 23, 1973

Description

This subpoena is one of two issued by the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities to President Nixon on July 23, 1973; it requests all communications between President Richard Nixon and John Dean, who used to be Counsel to the President.

Creator

Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities

Source

From 23 July 1973: Watergate: Subpoenas, Separated Folder SEP-5528/92 in the Rufus Edmisten Papers #5528, Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Date

July 23, 1973

Contributor

Ervin, Sam J., Jr. (Sam James), 1896-1985; Edmisten, Rufus, 1941-; Lenzner, Terry F.

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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image/jpg

Language

English

Type

Text

Identifier

https://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/05ddd/id/471278

Text

[page one]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
SUBPOENA DUCES TECUM

To: President Richard M. Nixon, The White House, Washington, D. C.
Pursuant to lawful authority, YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED to make available to the SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES of the Senate of the United States, on Thursday, July 26, 1973, at 10:00 o’clock a.m., at their committee room, 318, Old Senate Office Building, the following:
Any and all original electronic tapes and recorded telephone messages of the below listed conversations or oral communications, telephonic or personal, between President Nixon and John Wesley Dean, III, discussing alleged criminal acts occuring [sic] in connection with the Presidential election of 1972 which the Committee is authorized to investigate pursuant to Senate Resolution 60 including but not limited to the break-ins at the Democratic National Committee offices on or about May 27, 1972, and on or about June 17, 1972, and any efforts made to conceal information or to grant executive clemency, pardons or immunity and payments made to the defendants and/or their attorneys relating to the above incidents at the dates and times of the attached list of conversation:

[page two]
September 15, 1972 (personal) 5:27 p.m. to 6:17 p.m.
February 28, 1973 (personal) 9:12 a.m. to 10:23 a.m.
March 13, 1973 (personal) 12:42 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
March 21, 1973 (personal) 10:12 a.m. to 11:55 a.m.
and 5:20 p.m. to 6:01 p.m.

Hereof fail not, as you will answer your default under the pains and penalties in such cases made and provided.
To Rufus L. Edmisten, Terry F. Lenzner to serve and return.

Given under my hand, by order of the committee, this 23rd day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventy-three.
Sam J. Ervin, Jr.
Chairman, Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities

[page three]
Served on Leonard Garment on behalf of the President.
Time: 6:35
Date: July 23, 1973
Place: Executive Office Bld., White House
Rufus L. Edmisten
Terry F. Lenzner
7/23/73

Received on behalf of the President
By: Leonard Garment,
Counsel to the President