Reply #6: I agree with you, but the remedy for the President needs to be legislative [View All]

In the absence of that, he is no different than you or I.

Nixon's claim that the president is immune from prosecution was simply ludicrous, but the bluff was good enough to save him from indictment. There is some documentation to the effect that Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski had to get the Grand Jury to back down after it returned an indictment against Nixon on the same day it returned indictments against Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, LaRue and Mardian. Jaworski didn't want the case complicated with the pre-trial motions Nixon's attorneys were sure to make.

Legislative guidelines concerning testimony and documents from the executive branch should also be legislated, but barring that the president has the right and privilege to fully cooperate with congressional investigators and provide them with anything they need. Any work on legislating guidelines should wait until Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney are safely out of office.