CBS Evening News - 1977-06-28
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[0:05] this is the CBS Evening News with Walter
[0:08] kronite good evening the Supreme Court
[0:11] today rejected former President Nixon's
[0:13] efforts to gain control of the records
[0:15] of his white house but in spite of that
[0:17] 7 to2 decision it could be a long time
[0:20] before the public may hear the 880 tapes
[0:23] or read the millions of papers Fred
[0:25] Graham reports at issue were the 42
[0:28] million documents and especially the
[0:30] famous White House tapes Left Behind
[0:32] when Richard Nixon was driven from
[0:33] office by Watergate in an unprecedented
[0:36] move Congress passed a law taking
[0:39] custody of all of it on behalf of the
[0:41] American people and the former president
[0:43] challenged the constitutionality of that
[0:45] law in the Supreme Court he charged that
[0:48] the law violated the separation of
[0:50] powers executive privilege his family's
[0:52] privacy and that it was a bill of
[0:54] attainer a law passed especially to
[0:56] punish a specific person but the Supreme
[0:59] Court declared in opinion by Justice
[1:00] William Brennan that Richard Nixon
[1:02] constituted a legitimate class of one
[1:05] that his situation as a disgraced former
[1:07] president who might destroy the tapes
[1:09] made it proper for Congress to pass a
[1:11] law treating him unlike any other person
[1:13] or president in our history the two to
[1:15] centers were Nixon appointees Warren
[1:17] berer and William renquist the tapes
[1:20] will remain locked in various locations
[1:22] around Washington while employees of the
[1:24] National Archive screen out personal and
[1:27] National Security conversations and
[1:29] prepare to make make the rest public
[1:31] Richard Nixon could still delay
[1:33] disclosures