European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 05, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Pogo 2 the stars and stripes sunday june 5, 1977 Nixon defends his View of Power i continued from Page ii dictates of common sense recognizing that faithful execution of the Laws is not always literal execution of the Laws. ". Faithful execution sometimes re quires finding ways to adapt the Laws to the circumstances at Nixon offered the statement because he said there had been widespread misinterpretations of his comments on to May 19 it was then that Nixon asked by Frost Why he had authorized wiretapping burglaries and other illegal actions against Antiwar dissenters said that a president could make an illegal action Legal merely by ordering it to be he made that remark Nixon says in the new statement. I was speaking within a very limited context of emergency actions and i was referring to that traditional latitude provided in dealing with words from the late chief Justice Fred m. Vinson. Nixon says that the presidency As he sees it exists in a Middle ground Between being an Auto crat and lie also contends that the inherent Power of a president is necessarily a Gray and argues that there is no Way in which these Powers can be codified that there arc nearly two Cen Turies of american history supporting his View. Nixon said the nation must place some Faith in the judgment of its presi dents and must give them room for a statement does not Analyse the checks that May exist constitutionally upon the use of such judgments by presi one Point he does say a president can and should be held accountable for the judgments he another Point he says that the Laws serve As a constraint on presidents As they do on All other officials and All other Citi the Central theme of his argument is that the Constitution and the Laws of the country can Only protect against substantial he suggests that no system however circumscribed can be uses Only two historic examples to illustrate what he Means by inherent and one of those examples led Toa supreme court decision that the presi Dent had acted was president Harry Truman s Sei Zure of the steel Mills during the korean War. To insure that they would keep operating despite a labor noting that the supreme court had overruled Truman. Nixon s statement dwells on the dissent in that other example he chose was presi Dent Thomas Jefferson s decision to make the Louisiana Purchase a decision which. Nixon says history s statement is More a discussion of his views than an attempt to answer his critics one Point though he docs take on his critics suggesting that they Only disapproved of Broad Power when he used it. Many of my he says construed the Powers More broadly when Franklin Roosevelt or Harry Truman was president and More narrowly when i was president. The debate often turns less on what the Powers Are than on who Hap pens to be exercising the former president seeks to justify some of the illegal actions he authorized by arguing that the result made that Worth while. One break in by the Federal Bureau Vatican annuls marriage Vatican City up the roman Catholic Church s highest court has annulled a marriage because the Bode believed that you could have babies by just sleeping Side by Side the Vatican volume on holy see activities in 1976" reported the Case without giving names or other details in a review of Rul Ings by the tribunal of the sacred roman Rota of investigation he says nearly broke up that breach of the Law by the Fri right or wrong he asks. Was the klan s threat to individual liberties sufficient to justify that intrusion on its members lib he made the same defense of intruding on the liberties of the Radical weather men s groups saying that that saved lives threatened by the weathermen s in the real he sums up where the Price of not acting May be paid in the lives of innocent citizens the answers Are not easy for presidents who must choose Between invading liberties and protecting the nation. George Wllling a the human Fly who scaled the world Trade Center in Newyork holds a Model depicting his depicting the real climb achievement on his return to his Job Ata new York toy factory. Willig has been inducted into the guinness Hall of Fame. He is being considered by a com Mittee in London or inclusion in the guinness Book of world records. A still Jong Way from Public new rules on Nixon tapes made Washington a once More the government s record keepers have drawn up ways for you to see Richard Nixon s papers and hear his tapes. Once More Don t get in line proposed regulations sent by the general services administration to con Gress on Friday Are the fourth in a series. And they face the same hurdles As the first Nixon resigned. Congress passed a Law taking custody of his papers. The Law directed the Gas to draw up regulations for Public Access and directed that the rules go into effect within 90 Days unless there was disapproval from either House of Congress a procedure known As a one House away the Law was challenged in the courts by Nixon s lawyers on grounds that it was unconstitutional. First a District court then a three judge panel decided it was constitutional Nixon s lawyers went to the supreme court got the Case accepted argued it before the justices and now arc awaiting the High court s ruling. In the meantime the Gas began writing its regulations. After three sets of rules were rejected for various reasons the latest document was written to meet the previous objections Donald Young assistant general counsel for records and administration at the Gas. Says if the supreme court rules that the takeover Law is constitutional it will be anywhere trom one to six years before the Public hears any Tajes we re going to have lawsuits for a Long Long time he predicted. I think Nixon will be dead and gone Long before this thing is finally resolved " the supreme court is expected to Rule on the constitutionality of the Law before it recesses in late june. If the court awards custody and control to Nixon the matter ends there. If however the Law is upheld the new regulations still must pass the congressional hurdle. The regulations if adopted certainly will be challenged for constitutionality right up to the supreme court again a process that takes about three years. Without those hurdles and others yet unforeseen it will take the Gas at least one year to produce transcripts of the water Gate related tapes Young says it takes 20 minutes to transcribe every minute of the hard to hear tapes in order to get Only to per cent accuracy to boost that accuracy to 95 per cent takes 60 minutes per minute of tape. The Gas plans to put 40 transcribers to work the transcripts and tapes then will be reviewed by archivists Tor things deemed private and personal or not to be made Public on National Security grounds. Transcribing the tapes May be even More difficult new than it was when the special watergate prosecutor s office hadit done. Young says. The Quality has gotten worse because the tapes have been in a place where the climate has t been Young says. They were just stored in the executive office building where there was no temperature or humidity control. 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