Richard M. NIXON, Plaintiff,
v.
Arthur F. SAMPSON et al., Defendants,
Henry S. Ruth, Special Prosecutor, Intervenor,
Jack Anderson, Intervenor.
The REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF the PRESS et al., Plaintiffs,
v.
Arthur F. SAMPSON et al., Defendants,
Richard M. Nixon, Intervenor.
Lillian HELLMAN et al., Plaintiffs,
v.
Arthur F. SAMPSON et al., Defendants,
Sen. Sam J. Ervin, Jr., et al., Amici Curiae;
Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, Amicus Curiae.
United States District Court, District of Columbia.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
January 31, 1975.
January 31, 1975.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Herbert J. Miller, Jr., R. Stan Mortenson, Raymond G. Larroca, William H. Jeffress, Jr., Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, Washington, D. C., for Richard M. Nixon.
Peter M. Kreindler, Counsel to the Sp. Prosecutor, Richard Davis; Kenneth S. Geller, Asst. Sp. Prosecutors, Watergate Sp. Prosecution Force, Washington, D. C., for the Special Prosecutor.
William A. Dobrovir, Andra N. Oakes, Washington, D. C., for Jack Anderson.
Carla A. Hills, Asst. Atty. Gen., Irving Jaffe, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Irwin Goldbloom, Acting Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Jeffrey Axelrad, Dept. of Justice, Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., for Arthur F. Sampson, et al.
Robert E. Herzstein, Mark J. Spooner, Andrew S. Krulwich, Jonathan D. Schiller, Leonard Simon, Arnold & Porter, Washington, D. C., for The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press et al.; David Bonderman, Lawrence C. Maisel, Thomas B. Wilner, Ivor C. Armistead, III, Washington, D. C., Peter T. Grossi, Jr., New Haven, Conn., of counsel.
Leon Friedman, Hofstra University School of Law, Hempstead, N. Y., John H. F. Shattuck, Melvin L. Wulf, American Civil Liberties Union, Telford Taylor, Columbia University Law School, New York City, for Lillian Hellman et al.
Thaddeus Holt, Breed, Abbott & Morgan, and William Sudow, Counsel, Subcommittee on Printing of the House Administration Committee, Washington, D. C., for amici curiae Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr., et al.
Larry P. Ellsworth, Alan B. Morrison, Washington, D. C., for amicus curiae Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman.
United States District Court, District of Columbia.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
CHARLES R. RICHEY, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
These consolidated cases present a unique controversy, the heart of which concerns the ownership of and the right to assert or waive privilege with respect to the "Presidential materials and tape-recorded conversations"1 of the Nixon Administration.
The suits comprise the following actions: a suit by former President Richard M. Nixon (C.A...
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