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US_Attorneys_070321.appDeck = "The Supreme Court has never resolved whether the executive branch can refuse to provide information sought by Congress on the basis of executive privilege, but the White House has managed it a few times. Click at left for examples. ";
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US_Attorneys_070321[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Steelman, an assistant to President Harry Truman, refused to appear before a special subcommittee of the House Education and Labor Committee in March 1948.";

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US_Attorneys_070321[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>President Richard Nixon prevented Klein, his communications director; Malek, a special assistant; and Colson, his special counsel, from appearing before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights in late 1971.";

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US_Attorneys_070321[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Nixon also prevented Kissinger, then his national security adviser, from appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the conduct of the Vietnam War in February 1972.";

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US_Attorneys_070321[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Like Kissinger, Young, a special assistant to Nixon&#146;s National Security Council, refused to appear before a House Government Operations subcommittee on foreign operations in April 1972.";

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US_Attorneys_070321[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Ridge, then President Bush&#146;s assistant for homeland security, refused to appear before the Senate Appropriations Committee in March and April 2002. He agreed to an informal closed-door meeting of subcommittee members later in April.";

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US_Attorneys_070321[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Bush&#146;s health care adviser refused to appear in March 2004 before the House Ways and Means Committee, which was investigating possible White House deception in Bush&#146;s Medicare prescription drug bill.";

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