PER CURIAM:
The question here at issue is whether or not a former President of the United States, a private citizen, can maintain absolute privilege as to certain White House papers sought on motion for discovery by plaintiffs in a civil suit. The question does not appear to have been finally decided heretofore by a federal court.
Plaintiffs are oil companies that have leased from the United States an area off the coast of California, in the Santa Barbara...
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