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...committee could be given the power to issue subpoenas and grant immunity from prosecution. There is precedent for Nixon to refuse to cooperate with a committee on grounds of Executive privilege. In 1953, President Truman cited the privilege in turning back a subpoena from the House Un-American Activities Committee. But the committee was investigating one of his appointments as President, and not his involvement in a well-documented criminal conspiracy, as is the case with Nixon...
...your issue of Sept. 9, your book review of Carl Solberg's Riding High gives new currency to the false statement that Truman said that "the whole world should adopt the American system." Truman never said anything of the sort. That is a fabrication by Noam Chomsky in his book American Power and the New Mandarins...
...handedly admitted that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has undertaken activities aimed at influencing the internal affairs of a democratically elected government. Ford also told the nation that he had every intention of continuing this course of action, which, he said, has been U.S. policy since the Truman administration...
...Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller...
...book also makes it clear that once reelected, F.D.R. was derelict when he failed to brief Vice President Harry Truman on even the most major elements of American policy, including the Yalta agreements...