... of the White House recordings claiming "executive privilege." Meanwhile, the House Judiciary Committee began an inquiry into whether he had committed impeachable offenses. On April 30, 1974, Nixon released some edited transcripts of White House conversations that he felt would reassure the public of his innocence regarding the Watergate break-in and cover-up. Instead he lost ... committed during his administration. The Watergate scandal presented such crisis for our Constitutional system because the Supreme Court issued a major decision on executive privilege. Although the Court rejected ...

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