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The Dr. Stanley Bach Documents Collection

Housed at the Sam Ervin Library & Museum, the Dr. Stanley Bach Documents Collection consists of documents of the Watergate Era, including hearings and other publications of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities. This large collection of documents is available for viewing and research for visitors to the Ervin Library and Museum.  Limited scanning and/or photocopying is available for some of these documents.

What is Contained in the Collection

The Bach Collection are various records of House and Senate committee meeting minutes, legal briefs, and other documents associated with the Watergate Scandal.

Below, you will find a listing of documents in the collection. To view online, click the arrow and the listing will open on the page.

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The Dr. Stanley Bach Collection

Inventory of Watergate, Nixon Impeachment, Ford Confirmation, Rockefeller Confirmation, Related Congressional Documents, and Other Paper, in Six Boxes

Congressional Documents

House of Representatives

 

Committee on Government Operations
  • Expenditure of Federal Funds in Support ofPresidential Proprties. Hearings. October 1973. 765 pages.
  • Expenditure of Federal Funds in Support ofPresidential Properties. Fifteenth Report of the Committee. House Report No. 93-1052. May 1974. 78 pages.
Committee on the Judiciary
  • Special Prosecutor and Watergate Grand Jury Legislation. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice. October and November 1973. 496 pages.
  • Investigatory Powers of the Committee on the Judiciary with Respect to Its Impeachment Inquiry. Report to accompany H. Res. 803. House Report No. 93-774. February 1974. 15 pages.
  • The Impeachment Inquiry: What It Means. House Committee Print. March 1974. 4 pages.
  • The Impeachment Inquiry: Its Meaning. House Committee Print. March 1974. 4 pages.
  • Impeachment Inquiry Procedures. May 1974. 2 pages.
  • Procedures for Handling Impeachment Inquiry Material. House Committee Print. February 1974. 2 pages.
  • Statement of Information (26 volumes, including appendices; 12,419 pages). [Each volume of Books I-X carries a rubber stamp on the front cover: “NOT FOR RELEASE UNTIL “(with different dates for different volumes)].
    • Book I: Events Prior to the Watergate Break-in. 271 pages
    • Book II: Events Following the Watergate Break-in, June 17, 1972-February 9, 1973. 680 pages.
    • Book III- Parts 1-2: Events Following the Watergate Break-in, June 20, 1972- March 22, 1973. 2 volumes, 1281 pages.
    • Book IV- Parts 1-3: Events Following the Watergate Break-In, March 22, 1973- April30, 1973. 3 volumes, 1659 pages.
    • Book V-Parts 1-2: Department of Justice Litigation- Richard Kleindienst Nomination Hearings. 2 volumes, 980 pages.
    • Book VI- Parts 1-2: Political Contributions by Milk Producers Cooperatives: The 1971 Milk Price Support Decision. 2 volumes, 984 pages.
    • Book VII- Parts 1-4: White House Surveillance Activities and Campaign Activities. 4 volumes, 2090 pages.
    • Book VIII: Internal Revenue Service. 440 pages.
    • Book IX-Parts 1-2: Watergate Special Prosecutors and Judiciary Committee’s Impeachment Inquiry. 2 volumes, 1069 pages.
    • Book X: Tax Deduction for Gift of Papers. 552 pages.
    • Book XI: Bombing of Cambodia. 599 pages.
    • Book XII: Impoundment of Funds and Government Expenditures on President Nixon’s Private Properties at San Clemente and Key Biscayne. 187 pages.
    • Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda, August 13, 1971-September 18, 1972. 714 pages.
    • Appendix I: Presidential Statements on the Watergate Break-In and Its Investigation. 110 pages.
    • Appendix II: Papers in Criminal Cases Initiated by the Watergate Special Prosecution Force. 381 pages.
    • Appendix III: Supplementary Documents: White House Edited Transcripts (April4, 1972, March 22, 1973, June 23, 1972); John Ehrlichman Handwritten Notes; Affidavit of Bruce A. Kehrli. 271 pages.
    • Appendix IV: Political Matters Memoranda, August 13, 1971-September 18, 1972. 151 pages.
  • Statement of Information: Background Memorandum. White House Staff and President Nixon’s Campaign Organizations. May-June 1974. 6 pages.
  • Statement of Information Submitted on Behalf of President Nixon ( 4 volumes; 892 pages). [Each volume carries a rubber stamp on the front cover: “NOT FOR RELEASE UNTIL “(with different dates for different volumes)].
    • Book I: Events Following the Watergate Break-In. 242 pages.
    • Book II: Department of Justice-ITT Litigation. 208 pages.
    • Book III: Political Contributions by Milk Producers Cooperatives: The 1971 Milk Price Support Decision. 217 pages.
    • Book IV: White House Surveillance Activities. 225 pages.
  • Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives by President Richard Nixon, April 30, 1974. 1308 pages.
  • Comparison of White House and Judiciary Committee Transcripts of Eight Recorded Presidential Conversations. 63 pages.
  • Brief on Behalf of the President of the United States, Richard Nixon, to the Committee on the Judiciary, Ninety-Third Congress, United States House of Representatives, July 19, 1974, Office of the Special Counsel to the President. 151 pages.
  • Transcript of Eight Recorded Presidential Conversations. 218 pages.
  • Testimony ofWitnesses- Book I. January 31-May 15, 1974. 702 pages.
  • Testimony ofWitnesses-Book II. May 16-June 19, 1974. 1454 pages.
  • Testimony of Witnesses- Book III. Henry E. Peterson, Charles W. Colson, and Herbert W. Kalmbach; July 12, 15, 16, 17, 1974. 746 pages.
  • Testimony of Witnesses-Book I. Alexander Butterfield, Paul O’Brien, and Fred C. LaRue. July 1974. 275 pages.
  • Testimony of Witnesses- Book II. William 0. Bittman, John N. Mitchell, and John W. Dean III. July 1974. 355 pages.
  • Summary of Information. July 1974. 177 pages.
  • Minority Memorandum on Facts and Law. July 1974. 163 pages.
  • Brief on Behalf of the President of the United States. July 197 4. 123 pages.
  • Legal Materials on Impeachment. House Committee Print of the Special Subcommittee on H. Res. 920. August 1970. 326 pages.
  • Impeachment: Selected Materials. House Committee Print. October 1973. 718 pages.
  • Impeachment: Selected Materials on Procedure. House Committee Print. January 1974. 900 pages.
  • Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment. House Committee Report. February 1974. 60 pages.
  • Debate on Articles of Impeachment. Hearings. July 1974. 562 pages.
  • Impeachment Inquiry. Book III. June-July 1974. 803 pages.
  • Impeachment of Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States. Report. House Report No. 93-1305. August 1974. 528 pages
  • Errata. 23 pages.
  • Application ofthe Twenty-Fifth Amendment to Vacancies in the Office ofthe Vice President: Legislative History. House Committee Print. November 1973. 469 pages.
  • Nomination of Gerald. R. Ford to be the Vice President of the United States. Hearings. November 1973. 793 pages.
  • Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as Vice President of the United States. Committee Print. November 1973. 13 pages.
  • Nomination of Nelson A. Rockefeller to be Vice President of the United States. Hearings. November-December 1974. 1411 pages.
  • Selected Issues and the Positions of Nelson A. Rockefeller, Nominee for Vice President ofthe United States: An Analysis. House Committee Print. November 1974. 130 pages.
  • Analysis of the Philosophy and Public Record of Nelson A. Rockefeller, Nominee for Vice President of the United States. House Committee Print. October 1974. 193 pages.
  • Debate on the Nomination ofNelson A. Rockefeller to be Vice President of the United States. Committee Meeting. House Committee Print. December 1974. 46 pages.
  • Confirmation ofNelson A. Rockefeller as Vice President of the United States. Report Accompanying H. Res. 1511. House Report No. 93-1609. December 1974. 50 pages.
  • Pardon of Richard M. Nixon, anq Related Matters. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice. September and October 1974. 271 pages.
  • Typescript documents:
    • Memorandum: Presentation Procedures for the Impeachment Inquiry. April 3, 1974. 34 pages.
    • Memorandum: Enforcement of Congressional Subpoenas. April 11, 1974. 12 pages.
    • Presidential Statements on the Watergate Break-In and Its Investigation. May 1974. 107 pages.
    • Background Information: White House Staff and President’s Nixon Campaign Organizations. May 14, 1974. 14 pages
    • Memorandum: Report on Impoundment of Funds. June 12, 1974. 91 pages.
    • Comparison ofPassages from “Transcripts of Eight Recorded Presidential Conversations” and “Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations.” July 9 1974. 131 pages.
    • Memorandum: Report on Government Expenditures Made on President Nixon’s Private Properties at San Clemente and Key Biscayne. July 19, 1974. 89 pages.
    • An Analysis of the Constitutional Standard for Presidential Impeachment, by James D. St. Clair, et., al., Attorneys for the President. 61 pages.
    • An Analysis of the Scope of an Article of Impeachment, by James D. St. Clair, et. al., Attorneys for the President. 19 pages.
    • 20 typescript transcripts of presidential recordings. 767 pages.
    • Draft of committee report on the Rockefeller nomination. December 16, 1974. 21 pages.
    • Draft and final draft of minority views on the Rockefeller nomination. December 16-17, 1974. 14 pages.
  • Documents prepared for use during committee consideration of articles of impeachment.
  • Manuscript: committee staff document on Nelson Rockefeller as nominee to be Vice President. November 18, 1974. In three-inch notebook. [Note: this document was prepared for internal committee use and contains no indication that the committee had approved any distribution to or use by others.]
  • Manuscript of what may have been an early draft of the committee’s final report to accompany its impeachment resolution. In three-inch notebook. [Note: there is no indication that the committee ever approved public distribution or release of this document.]
  • Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment. Text of committee document published by Public Affairs Press, Washington DC. 62 pages.

Senate

  • Procedure and Guidelines for Impeachment Trials in the United States Senate. Senate Document No. 93-102. August 1974. 85 pages.
Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities
  • Presidential Campaign Activities of 1972. Senate Resolution 60.
  • Books 1-26, 12,966 pages
    • Book 1: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase I: Watergate Investigation. May 1973.
    • Book 2: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase I: Watergate Investigation. June 1973.
    • Book 3: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase I: Watergate Investigation. June 1973.
    • Book 4: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase I: Watergate Investigation. June and July 1973
    • Book 5: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase I: Watergate Investigation. July 1973.
    • Book 6: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase I: Watergate Investigation. July 1973.
    • Book 7: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase I: Watergate Investigation. July 1973.
    • Book 8: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase I: Watergate Investigation. July and August 1973.
    • Book 9: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase I: Watergate Investigation. August and September 1973.
    • Book 10: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase II. Campaign Practices. September and October 1973. 7
    • Book 11: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase II: Campaign Practices. October 1973.
    • Book 12: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase II: Campaign Practices. November 1973.
    • Book 13: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase III: Campaign Financing. November 1973.
    • Book 14: Executive Session Hearings: Watergate and Related Activities. Milk Fund Investigation. November and December 1973.
    • Book 15: Executive Session Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Milk Fund Investigation. December 1973.
    • Book 16: Executive Session Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Milk Fund Investigation. January, February, and March 1974.
    • Book 17: Executive Session Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Milk Fund Investigation. March, April, May, and June 1974.
    • Book 18: Executive Session Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Use of Incumbency- Responsiveness Program
    • Book 19: Executive Session Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Use oflncumbency- Responsiveness Program (Additional Documents)
    • Book 20: Executive Session Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. The Hughes-Rebozo Investigation, and Related Matters. July, September, and December 1973.
    • Book 21: Executive Session Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. The Hughes-Rebozo Investigation, and Related Matters. February-March 1974.
    • Book 22: Executive Session Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. The Hughes-Rebozo Investigation and Related Matters. March-April 1974.
    • Book 23: Executive Session Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. The Hughes-Rebozo Investigation, and Related Matters. April, May, and June 1974.
    • Book 24: Executive Session Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities, The Hughes-Rebozo Investigation and Related Matters. June 1974.
    • Book 25: Executive Session Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities, Supplemental Material on Campaign Practices and Finances. October, November, and December 1973; January 1974.
    • Book 26: Appendix to the Hughes-Rebozo Investigation. Exhibits Relating to Chapter 8 of the Final Report.
  • Legal Documents Relating to the Select Committee Hearings.
  • Appendix to the Hearings. Parts 1-2,2157 pages. Indexes to the Public Hearings. 239 pages.
  • Final Report. Report No. 93-981. 1250 pages.
Committee on Armed Services
  • Bombing in Cambodia. Hearings. July-August 1973. 512 pages.
Senate Committee on Government Operations
  • Preservation, Protection, and Public Access with Respect to Certain Tape Recordings and Other Materials. Report to accompany S. 4016. Senate Report No. 93-1191. September 1974. 10 pages.
Committee on the Judiciary
  • Richard G. Kleindienst. Hearings. March-April1972. 3 volumes; 1751 pages.
  • Louis Patrick Gray III. Hearings. February-March 1973. 714 pages.
  • Nomination of Elliot L. Richardson to be Attorney General. Hearings. May 1973. 287 pages.
  • Special Prosecutor. Hearings. October-November 1973. Parts 1-2,615 pages.
Committee on Rules and Administration
  • Senate Rules and Precedents Applicable to Impeachment Trials. Executive Session Hearings. August 1974. 234 pages.
  • Nomination of Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York to be Vice President of the United States. Hearings. September-November 1974. 1398 pages.
  • Nomination of Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York to be Vice President of the United States. Committee Report. Executive Report No. 93-94. December 1974. 200 pages.

Other

Joint Committee on Congressional Operations
  • Court Proceedings and Actions of Vital Interest to the Congress: United States v. John N. Mitchell, et. al., and United States vs. Richard M. Nixon, et. al., and Richard M. Nixon v. United States. July 1974. 566 pages.
Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation
  • Investigation into Certain Charges of the Use of the Internal Revenue Service for Political Purposes. Committee Print. December 1973. 29 pages.
  • Examination of President Nixon’s Tax Returns for 1969 Through 1972. House Report No. 93-966. 990 pages.
  • Examination of Vice President Designate Nelson A. Rockefeller’s Tax Returns and Other Financial Reports. Prepared for the House Committee on the Judiciary and the Senate · Committee on Rules and Administration. Confidential Committee Print. October 1974. 69 pages.
Other
  • Congressional Research Service. Grounds for Impeachment: Summaries of the Reports of the Department of Justice, House Judiciary Committee Staff, and White House Staff on the Grounds for the Impeachment of the President. April 17, 1974. 27 pages.
  • Congressional Research Service. Impeachment. June 25, 1957. 9 pages.
  • Congressional Research Service. A Brief Summary and Index of the Hearings Before the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration on the Nomination of Governor Nelson Rockefeller of the State of New York to Fill the Vacancy in the Office of the Vice President of the United States on November 13, 1974. November 14, 1974. 17 pages.
  • Congressional Research Service. Impeachment Inquiry: President Richard M. Nixon. Issue Brief, November 18, 1974. 21 pages.
  • Congressional Research Service. Senate Confirmation of Officers in the Executive Office of the President. 19 pages.
  • Congressional Record, v. 120, n. 130, Part II, comprising the impeachment report submitted by the House Judiciary Committee. August 22, 1974. 142 pages.
  • General Accounting Office. Protection of the President at Key Biscayne and San Clemente (with Information on Protection ofPast Presidents). 99 pages.
  • 22 related House and Senate bills and resolutions.
  • File of papers relating to the pardon of President Nixon.
  • Assorted related excerpts from the Congressional Record.

Other Government Documents

  • Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel. Legal Aspects of Impeachment: An Overview. February 1974. 52 pages.
    • The Law of Impeachment- Appendix I: The Concept ofirnpeachable Offense. 57 pages.
    • The Law of Impeachment- Appendix II: History of Provisions ofthe Constitution Relating to Impeachment. 89 pages.
    • Legal Aspects of Impeachment: An Overview-Appendix III: Historical Statements on Executive Privilege and Impeachment. 32 pages.
    • Legal Aspects ofimpeachment: An Overview-Appendix IV: Judicial Review of Impeachment Convictions. 22 pages.
  • General Services Administration. Report to Congress on Title I, Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act. March 1975. Supreme Court. United States v. Nixon et. al. 31 pages.

Other Documents

  • Adler, Renata. “Searching for the Real Nixon Scandal.” 20 pages.
  • American Civil Liberties Union. “Why President Nixon Should Be Impeached.” · Washington: Public Affairs Press. 56 pages.
  • American Civil Liberties Union. “High Crimes and Misdemeanors: What They Are, What They Aren’t.” 41 pages.
  • Benedict, Michael Les. “A New Look at the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson,” Political Science Quarterly, v. 88, n. 3, September 1973. 18 pages.
  • Berger, Raoul. “Impeachment for ‘High Crimes and Misdemeanors’,” Southern California Law Review, v. 44, 1971. 65 pages.
  • Berger, Raoul. “The Grand Inquest of the Nation,” Harper’s Magazine, October 1973. 7 pages.
  • Berger, Raoul. “The President, Congress, and the Courts,” v. 83, n. 6, May 1974. 44 pages.
  • Bestor, Arthur. “Review of ‘Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems,’ by Raoul Berger,” Washington Law Review, v. 49, 1973. 31 pages.
  • Brant, Irving. “Nixon, Ford, and the Constitution,” Political Reform: The Forensic Quarterly, v. 48, May 1974. 11 pages.
  • Broderick, Albert. “The Politics of lmpeaclunent,” American Bar Association Journal, v. 60, May 1974. 5 pages.
  • Caraley, Demetrios, et. al. “American Political Institutions After Watergate- a Discussion,” Political Science Quarterly, v. 89, n. 4, Winter 1974-75. 36 pages.
  • Committee on Federal Legislation. “The Law of Presidential Impeachment,” The Association of the Bar of the City of New York. 24 pages.
  • Cox, Archibald. “Some Reflections on Possible Abuses of Governmental Power,” Record of the Association ofthe Bar of the City ofNew York, v. 28, December 1973. 16 pages.
  • Crown, Joseph H. “Did President Nixon Commit Fraud in Claiming a Tax Deduction on His 1969 Return for His Papers?,” Taxation Without Repersentation. 32 pages.
  • Goldberg, Arthur J. “The Question oflmpeaclunent,” Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, v. 1, Spring 1974, 7 pages.
  • Kurland, Philip B. “Watergate, lmpeachment, and the Constitution,” Mississippi Law Journal, v. 45, May 1974. 69 pages.
  • Lillich, Richard B. “The Chase Impeachment,” The American Journal of Legal History, v. 4, n. 1, January 1960, 23 pages.
  • Lukas, J. Anthony. “Watergate: The Story So Far,” New York Times Magazine, July 22, 1973. Reprinted as a Warner Modular Publication. 40 pages.
  • McGeever, Patrick J. ‘”Guilty Yes: lmpeaclunent, No’ : Some Empirical Findings,” Political Science Quarterly, v. 89, n. 2, June 1974, 11 pages.
  • Meet the Press. Transcripts of interviews with Melvin Laird (October 21, 1973), Archibald Cox (October 28, 1973), and James D. St. Clair (May 5, 1974). 26 pages.
  • Miller, Arthur S. “The Coming Trial of Richard M. Nixon,” The Progressive, June 1974. 4 pages.
  • Morgan, Charles Jr., et. al. “Impeachment: An Historical Overview,” Seton Hall Law Review, v. 5, n. 3, Spring 1974. 30 pages.
  • Resneck, Daniel A.. “Is Judicial Review of Impeachment Coming?”, American Bar Association Journal, v. 60, June 1974, 5 pages.
  • Rifkind, Simon. “Memorandum on the Role of Counsel and Related Procedural Matters.”
  • Simpson, Alex Jr. “Federal Impeachments,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review, v. 64, n. 7, May 1916, 79 pages.
  • Sloan, Jerome S., and Ira E. Garr. “Treason, Bribery, or Other High Crimes and Misdemeanors- a Study of Impeachment,” Temple Law Quarterly, v. 47, n. 3, Spring 1974. 43 pages.
  • Sofaer, Abraham D. “Review of ‘Executive Privilege: a Constitutional Myth”, Harvard Law Review, v. 88, n. 1, November 1974. 13 pages.
  • Stone, I. F. “Impeachment,” New York Review ofBooks, v. 20, n. 2, June 28, 1973, 11 pages. [Reprinted as a Warner Modular Publication.]
  • Strong, Frank R. “Courts, Congress, Judiciary: One Is More Equal than the Others,” American Bar Association Journal, v. 60, October 1974. 4 pages.
  • Van Alstyne, William. “The Third Impeachment Article: Congressional Bootstrapping,” American Bar Association Journal, v. 60, October 1974, 4 pages.
  • Walthall, Timothy. “Executive Impeachment: Stealing Fire from the Gods,” New England Law Review, v. 9, Winter 1974. 34 pages.
  • Wills, Garry. “The Impeachment Man,” The Atlantic, May 1974. 6 pages
  • Yankwich, Leon. “Impeachment of Civil Officers Under the Federal Constitution,” Georgetown Law Review, v. 26, n. 4, May 1938. 18 pages.
  • Zeifman, Jerome. “Chickens and Eagles: The Politics of the Impeachrnent ofRichard Nixon.” Lecture at the University of Santa Clara Law Society by the former General Counsel of the House Judiciary Committee. 6 pages.
  • “American Character: Trial and Triumph,” Harper’s Magazine, October 1974. 118 pages.
  • “Watergate: Chronology of a Crisis.” Congressional Quarterly. 1973. 291 pages.
  • “Impeachment and the U.S. Congress.” Congressional Quarterly, 1974. 60 pages.
  • “Watergate: Its Implications for Responsible Government,” National Academy of Public Administration. March 1974. 143 pages.
  • “The Impeachment Vote,” Newsweek, August 5, 1974.
  • “Exclusive: Nixon’s Final Days. From the New Book by Woodward and Bernstein,” Newsweek, April 5, 1976.
  • “What You Should Know About Impeachment,” Skeptic, n. 49, May/June 1974.
  • Other assorted newspaper and magazine articles.

Inventory of Documents, Including Hearings and Other Publications, of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities

  • Presidential Campaign Activities of 1972. Senate Resolution 60.
  • Books 1-26, 12,966 pages
    • Book 1: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase I: Watergate Investigation. May 1973.
    • Book 2: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase I: Watergate Investigation. June 1973. ·
    • Book 3: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase I: Watergate Investigation. Jline 1973.
    • Book 4: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase I: Watergate Investigation. June and July 1973 .
    • Book 5: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase I: Watergate Investigation. July 1973.
    • Book 6: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase I: Watergate Investigation July 1973.
    • Book 7: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase I: Watergate Investigation. July 1973. ·
    • Book 8: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase 1: Watergate Investigation. July and August 1973.
    • Book 9: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase I: Watergate Investigation. August and September 1973.
    • Book 10: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase II. Campaign Practices. September and October 1973.
    • Book 11: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase II: Campaign Practices. October 1973. Book 12: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase 11: Campaign Practices. November 1973.
    • Book 13: Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Phase III: Campaign Financing. November 1973.
    • Book 14: Executive Session Hearings: Watergate and Related Activities. Milk Fund Investigation. November and December 1973.
    • Book 15: Executive Session Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Milk Fund Investigation. December 1973.
    • Book 16: Executive Session Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Milk Fund Investigation. January, February, and March 1974.
    • Book 17: Executive Session Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Milk Fund Investigation. March, April, May, and June 1974.
    • Book 18: Executive Session Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Use of lncumbency-Responsiveness Program
    • Book 19: Executive Session Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. Use of Incumbency-Responsiveness Program (Additional Documents)
    • Book 20: Executive Session Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. The Hughes-Rebozo Investigation, and Related Matters. July, September, and December 1973.
    • Book 21 : Executive Session Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. The Hughes-Rebozo Investigation, and Related Matters. February-March 1974.
    • Book 22: Executive Session Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. The Hughes-Rebozo Investigation and Related Matters. March-April 1974.
    • Book 23: Executive Session Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities. The Hughes-Rebozo Investigation, and Related Matters. April, May, and June 1974.
    • Book 24: Executive Session Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities, The Hughes-Rebozo Investigation and Related Matters. June 1974.
    • Book 25: Executive Session Hearings. Watergate and Related Activities, Supplemental Material on Campaign Practices and Finances. October, November, and December 1973; January 1974.
    • Book 26: Appendix to the Hughes-Rebozo Investigation. Exhibits Relating to Chapter 8 of the Final Report.
  • Legal Documents Relating to the Select Committee Hearings. Appendix to the Hearings. Parts 1-2, 2157 pages.
  • Indexes to the Public Hearings. 239 pages.
  • Final Report. Report No. 93-981. 1250 pages.

Inventory of Documents, Including Hearings and Other Publications, of the House Judiciary Committee Relating to the Nixon Impeachment

  • The Impeachment Inquiry: What It Means. House Committee Print. March 1974. 4 pages.
  • The Impeachment Inquiry: Its Meaning. House Committee Print. March 1974. 4 pages.
  • Impeachment Inquiry Procedures. May 1974. 2 pages.
  • Procedures for Handling Impeachment Inquiry Material. House Committee Print. February 1974. 2 pages.
  • Statement of Information (26 volumes, including appendices; 12,419 pages). [Each volume of Books I-X carries a rubber stamp on the front cover: ”NOT FOR RELEASE UNTIL “(with different dates for different volumes)].
    • Book 1: Events Prior to the Watergate Break-in. 271 pages
    • Book II: Events Following the Watergate Break-in, June 17, 1972-February 9, 1973. 680 pages.
    • Book III-Parts 1-2: Events Following the Watergate Break-in, June 20, 1972- March 22, 1973. 2 volumes, 1281 pages.
    • Book IV-Parts 1-3: Events Following the Watergate Break-In, March 22, 1973-April 30, 1973. 3 volumes, 1659 pages.
    • Book V-Parts 1-2: Department of Justice Litigation-Richard Kleindienst Nomination Hearings. 2 volumes, 980 pages.
    • Book VI-Parts 1-2: Political Contributions by Milk Producers Cooperatives: The 1971 Milk Price Support Decision. 2 volumes, 984 pages.
    • Book VII-Parts 1-4: White House Surveillance Activities and Campaign Activities. 4 volumes, 2090 pages.
    • Book VIII: Internal Revenue Service. 440 pages.
    • Book IX-Parts 1-2: Watergate Special Prosecutors and Judiciary Committee’s Impeachment Inquiry. 2 volumes, 1069 pages.
    • Book X: Tax Deduction for Gift of Papers. 552 pages.
    • Book XI: Bombing of Cambodia. 599 pages.
    • Book XII: Impoundment of Funds and Government Expenditures on President Nixon’s Private Properties at San Clemente and Key Biscayne. 187 pages.
    • Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda, August 13, 1971-September 18, 1972. 714 pages.
    • Appendix 1: Presidential Statements on the Watergate Break-In and Its Investigation. 110 pages.
    • Appendix II: Papers in Criminal Cases Initiated by the Watergate Special Prosecution Force. 381 pages.
    • Appendix III: Supplementary Documents: White House Edited Transcripts (April4, 1972,’March 22, 1973; June 23, 1972); John Ehrlichman Handwritten Notes; Affidavit of Bruce A. Kehrli. 271 pages.
    • Appendix IV: Political Matters Memoranda, August 13, 1971- September 18, 1972. 151 pages.
  • Statement of Information: Background Memorandum. White House Staff and President Nixon’s Campaign Organizations. May-Jnne 1974. 6 pages.
  • Statement of Information Submitted on Behalf of President Nixon ( 4 volumes; 892 pages). [Each volume carries a rubber stamp on the front cover: ”NOT FOR RELEASE UNTIL “(with different dates for different volumes)].
    • Book 1: Events Following the Watergate Break-In. 242 pages.
    • Book II: Department of Justice-ITT Litigation. 208 pages.
    • Book III: Political Contributions by Milk Producers Cooperatives: The 1971 Milk Price Support Decision. 217 pages.
    • Book IV: White House Surveillance Activities. 225 pages.
  • Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations to the Committee on the Judiciary of · the House of Representatives by President Richard Nixon, April 30, 1974. 1308 pages.
  • Comparison of White House and Judiciary Committee Transcripts of Eight Recorded Presidential Conversations. 63 pages.
  • Transcript of Eight Recorded Presidential Conversations. 218 pages.
  • Testimony of Witnesses-Book I. January 31-May 15, 1974. 702 pages.
  • Testimony of Witnesses-Book II. May 16-.June 19, 1974. 1454 pages.
  • Testimony of Witnesses-Book III. Henry E. Peterson, Charles W. Colson, and Herbert W. Kalmbach; July 12, 15, 16, 17, 1974. 746 pages.
  • Testimony of Witnesses-Book I. Alexander Butterfield, Paul O’Brien, and Fred C. LaRue. July 1974. 275 pages.
  • Testimony of Witnesses-Book II. William O. Bittman, John N. Mitchell, and John W. Dean III. July 1974. 355 pages.
  • Summary of Information. July 1974. 177 pages.
  • Minority Memorandwn on Facts and Law. July 1974. 163 pages.
  • Brief on Behalf of the President of the United States. July 1974. 123 pages.
  • Brief on Behalf of the President of the United States, Richard Nixon, to the Committee on the Judiciary, Ninety-Third Congress, United States House ofRepresentatives, July 19, 1974,
  • Office of the Special Counsel to the President. 151 pages.
  • Legal Materials on Impeachment. House Committee Print of the Special Subcommittee on H. Res. 920. August 1970. 326 pages.
  • Impeachment: Selected Materials. House Committee Print. October 1973. 718 pages.
  • Impeachment: Selected Materials on Procedure. House Committee Print. January 1974. 900 pages.
  • Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment. House Committee Report. February 1974. 60 pages.
  • Debate on Articles oflmpeachment. Hearings. July 1974. 562 pages.
  • Impeachment Inquiry. Book III. June-July 1974. 803 pages.
  • Impeachment of Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States. Report. House Report No. 93-1305. August 1974. 528 pages
  • Errata. 23 pages.

Inventory of Other Published and Unpublished Congressional Documents and Secondary Source Documents Relating to Watergate and the Nixon Impeachment, Including the Ford and Rockefeller Confirmations and the Nixon Pardon House of Representatives

  • Special Prosecutor and Watergate Grand Jury Legislation. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice. October and November 1973. 496 pages.
  • Investigatory Powers of the Committee on the Judiciary with Respect to Its Impeachment Inquiry. Report to Accompany H. Res. 803. House Report No. 93-774. February 1974. 15 pages.
  • Expenditure of Federal Funds in Support of Presidential Proprties. Hearings. October 1973. 765 pages.
  • Expenditure of Federal Funds in Support of Presidential Properties. Fifteenth Report of the Committee. House Report No. 93-1052. May 1974. 78 pages.
  • Application of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment to Vacancies in the Office of the Vice President: Legislative History. House Committee Print. November 1973. 469 pages.
  • Nomination of Gerald. R. Ford to be the Vice President of the United States. Hearings. November 1973. 793 pages.
  • Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as Vice President ofthe United States. Committee Print. November 1973. 13 pages.
  • Nomination of Nelson A. Rockefeller to be Vice President of the United States. Hearings. November-December 1974. 1411 pages.
  • Selected Issues and the Positions of Nelson A. Rockefeller, Nominee for Vice President of the United States: An Analysis. House Committee Print. November 1974. 130 pages.
  • Analysis of the Philosophy and Public Record of Nelson A. Rockefeller, Nominee for Vice President ofthe United States. House Committee Print. October 1974. 193 pages.
  • Debate on the Nomination of Nelson A. Rockefeller to be Vice President of the United States. Committee Meeting. House Committee Print. December 1974. 46 pages.
  • Confirmation of Nelson A. Rockefeller as Vice President of the United States. Report Accompanying H. Res. 1511. House Report No. 93-1609. December 1974. 50 pages.
  • Pardon of Richard M. Nixon, and Related Matters. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice. September and October 1974. 271 pages.
  • Typescript documents: Memorandum: Presentation Procedures for the Impeachment Inquiry. April3, 1974. 34 pages.
  • Memorandum: Enforcement of Congressional Subpoenas. April II, 1974. 12 pages.
  • Presidential Statements on the Watergate Break-In and Its Investigation. May 1974. 107 pages.
  • Background Information: White House Staff and President’s Nixon Campaign Organizations. May 14, 1974. 14 pages
  • Memorandum: Report on Impoundment of Funds. June 12, 1974. 91 pages.
  • Comparison of Passages from “Transcripts of Eight Recorded Presidential Conversations” and “Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations.” July 9 1974. 131 pages.
  • Memorandum: Report on Government Expenditures Made on President Nixon’s Private Properties at San Clemente and Key Biscayne. July 19, 1974. 89 pages.
  • An Analysis of the Constitutional Standard for Presidential Impeachment, by James D. St. Clair, et., al., Attorneys for the President. 61 pages.
  • An Analysis of the Scope of an Article of Impeachment, by James D. St. Clair, et. al., Attorneys for the President. 19 pages.
  • 20 Typescript Transcripts of Presidential Recordings. 767 pages.
  • Draft of Committee Report on the Rockefeller Nomination. December 16, 1974. 21 pages.
  • Draft and Final Draft of Minority Views on the Rockefeller Nomination. December 16-17,1974. 14pages.
  • Documents prepared for use during committee consideration of articles of impeachment.
  • Manuscript: Committee Staff Document on Nelson Rockefeller as Nominee to be Vice President. November 18, 1974. In three-inch notebook. [Note: tills document was prepared for internal committee use and contains no indication that the committee had approved any distribution to or use by others.]
  • Manuscript of what may have been an early draft of the committee’s final report to accompany its impeachment resolution. In three-inch notebook. [Note: there is no indication that the committee ever approved public distribution or release of this document.]
  • Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment. Text of committee document published by Public Affairs Press, Washington DC. 62 pages.

Senate

  • Procedure and Guidelines for Impeachment Trials in the United States Senate. Senate Document No. 93-102. August 1974. 85 pages.
  • Bombing in Cambodia. Hearings. July-August 1973. 512 pages.
  • Preservation, Protection, and Public Access with Respect to Certain Tape Recordings and Other Materials. Report to accompany S. 4016. Senate Report No. 93-1191. September 1974. 10 pages.
  • Richard G. Kleindienst. Hearings. March-April 1972. 3 volumes; 1751 pages.
  • Louis Patrick Gray III. Hearings. February-March 1973. 714 pages.
  • Nomination of Elliot L. Richardson to be Attorney General. Hearings. May 1973. 287 pages.
  • Special Prosecutor. Hearings. October-November 1973. Parts 1-2,615 pages.
  • Senate Rules and Precedents Applicable to Impeachment Trials. Executive Session Hearings. August 1974. 234 pages.
  • Nomination of Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York to be Vice President of the United States. Hearings. September-November 1974. 1398 pages.
  • Nomination of Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York to be Vice President of the United States. Committee Report. Executive Report No. 93-94. December t974. 200 pages.
  • Court Proceedings and Actions of Vital Interest to the Congress: United States v. John N. Mitchell, et. al., and United States vs. Richard M. Nixon, et. al., and Richard M. Nixon v. United States. July 1974. 566 pages.
  • Investigation into Certain Charges of the Use of the Internal Revenue Service for Political Purposes. Committee Print. December 1973. 29 pages.
  • Examination of President Nixon’s Tax Returns for 1969 Through 1972. House Report No. 93-966. 990 pages.
  • Examination of Vice President Designate Nelson A. Rockefeller’s Tax Returns and Other Financial Reports. Prepared for the House Committee on the Judiciary and the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. Confidential Committee Print. October 1974. 69 pages.

Other Government Documents

  • Congressional Research Service. Grounds for Impeachment: Summaries of the Reports of the Department of Justice, House Judiciary Committee Staff, and White House Staff on the Grounds for the Impeachment ofthe President. April 17, 1974. 27 pages.
  • Congressional Research Service. Impeachment. June 25, 1957. 9 pages.
  • Congressional Research Service. A Brief Summary and Index of the Hearings Before the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration on the Nomination of Governor Nelson Rockefeller of the State of New York to Fill the Vacancy in the Office of the Vice President of the United States on November 13, 1974. November 14, 1974. 17 pages.
  • Congressional Research Service. Impeachment Inquiry: President Richard M. Nixon. Issue Brief, November 18, 1974. 21 pages.
  • Congressional Research Service. Senate Confirmation of Officers in the Executive Office of the President. 19 pages.
  • Congressional Record, v. 120, n. 130, Part II, Comprising the Impeachment Report Submitted by the House Judiciary Committee. August 22, 1974. 142 pages.
  • General Accounting Office. Protection of the President at Key Biscayne and San Clemente (with Information on Protection of Past Presidents). 99 pages.
  • 22 related House and Senate Bills and Resolutions.
  • File of Papers Relating to the Pardon of President Nixon.
  • Assorted Related Excerpts from the Congressional Record.
  • Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel. Legal Aspects of Impeachment: An Overview. February 1974. 52 pages.
    • The Law of Impeachment-Appendix I: The Concept of Impeachable Offense. 57 pages.
    • The Law of Impeachment- Appendix II: History of Provisions of the Constitution Relating to Impeachment. 89 pages.
    • Legal Aspects of Impeachment: An Overview- Appendix III: Historical Statements on Executive Privilege and Impeachment. 32 pages.
    • Legal Aspects of Impeachment: An Overview-Appendix IV: Judicial Review of Impeachment Convictions. 22 pages.
  • General Services Administration. Report to Congress on Title I, Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act. March 1975.
  • Supreme Court. United States v. Nixon et. al. 31 pages.

Other Documents

  • Adler, Renata. “Searching for .the Real Nixon Scandal.” 20 pages.
  • American Civil Liberties Union. “Why President Nixon Should Be Impeached.” Washington: Public Affairs Press. 56 pages.
  • American Civil Liberties Union. “High Crimes and Misdemeanors: What They Are, What They Aren’t.” 41 pages.
  • Benedict, Michael Les. “A New Look at the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson,” Political Science Quarterly, v. 88, n. 3, September 1973. 18 pages.
  • Berger, Raoul. “Impeachment for ‘High Crimes and Misdemeanors’,” Southern California Law Review, v. 44, 1971. 65 pages.
  • Berger, Raoul. “The Grand Inquest of the Nation,” Harper’s Magazine, October 1973. 7 pages.
  • Berger, Raoul. “The President, Congress, and the Courts,” v. 83, n. 6, May 1974. 44 pages.
  • Bestor, Arthur. “Review of ‘Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems,’ by Raoul Berger,” Washington Law Review, v. 49, 1973. 31 pages .
  • Brant, Irving. “Nixon, Ford, and the Constitution,” Political Reform: The Forensic Quarterly, v. 48, May 1974. 11 pages.
  • Broderick, Albert. “The Politics of Impeachment,” American Bar Association Journal, v. 60, May 1974. 5 pages.
  • Caraley, Demetrios, et. al. “American Political Institutions After Watergate-a Discussion,” Political Science Quarterly, v. 89, n. 4, Winter 1974-75. 36 pages.
  • Committee on Federal Legislation. “The Law of Presidential Impeachment,” The Association of the Bar of the City of New York. 24 pages.
  • Cox, Archibald. “Some Reflections on Possible Abuses of Governmental Power,” Record of the Association of the Bar of the City ofNew York, v. 28, December 1973. 16 pages.
  • Crown, Joseph H. “Did President Nixon Commit Fraud in Claiming a Tax Deduction on His 1969 Return for His Papers?,” Taxation Without Repersentation. 32 pages.
  • Goldberg, Arthur J. “The Question of Impeachment,” Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, v. 1, Spring 1974, 7 pages.
  • Kurland, Philip B. “Watergate, Impeachment, and the Constitution,” Mississippi Law Journal, v. 45, May 1974. 69 pages.
  • Lillich, Richard B. “The Chase Impeachment,” The American Journal of Legal History, v. 4, n. 1, January 1960,23 pages.
  • Lukas, J. Anthony. “Watergate: The Story So Far,” New York Times Magazine, July 22, 1973. Reprinted as a Warner Modular Publication. 40 pages.
  • McGeever, Patrick J. “‘Guilty Yes: Impeachment, No’: Some Empirical Findings,” Political Science Quarterly, v. 89, n. 2, June 1974, 11 pages.
  • Meet the Press. Transcripts of interviews with Melvin Laird (October 21, 1973), Archibald Cox (October 28, 1973), and James D. St. Clair (May 5, 1974). 26 pages.
  • Miller, Arthur S. “The Coming Trial of Richard M. Nixon,” The Progressive, June 1974. 4 pages.
  • Morgan, Charles Jr., et. al. “Impeachment: An Historical Overview,” Seton Hall Law Review, v. 5, n. 3, Spring 1974. 30 pages.
  • Resneck, Daniel A . “Is Judicial Review of Impeachment Coming?”, American Bar Association Journal, v. 60, June 1974, 5 pages.
  • Rifkind, Simon. “Memorandum on the Role of Counsel and Related Procedural Matters.”
  • Simpson, Alex Jr. “Federal Impeachments,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review, v. 64, n. 7, May 1916, 79 pages.
  • Sloan, Jerome S., and Ira E. Garr. “Treason, Bribery, or Other High Crimes and Misdemeanors – A Study of Impeachment,” Temple Law Quarterly, v. 47, n. 3, Spring 1974. 43 pages.
  • Sofaer, Abraham D. “Review of ‘Executive Privilege: a Cons~itutional Myth”‘, Harvard Law Review, v. 88, n. 1, November 1974. 13 pages.
  • Stone, I. F. “Impeachment,” New York Review of Books, v. 20, n. 2, June 28, 1973, 11 pages. [Reprinted as a Warner Modular Publication.]
  • Strong, Frank R. “Courts, Congress, Judiciary: One Is More Equal than the Others,” American Bar Association Journal, v. 60, October 1974. 4 pages.
  • Van Alstyne, William. “The Third Impeachment Article: Congressional Bootstrapping,” American Bar Association Journal, v. 60, October 1974, 4 pages.
  • Walthall, Timothy. “Executive Impeachment: Stealing Fire from the Gods,” New England Law Review, v. 9, Winter 1974. 34 pages.
  • Wills, Garry. “The Impeachment Man,” The Atlantic, May 1974. 6 pages
  • Yankwich, Leon. “Impeachment of Civil Officers Under the Federal Constitution,” Georgetown Law Review, v. 26, n. 4, May 1938. 18 pages.
  • Zeifman, Jerome. “Chickens and Eagles: The Politics of the Impeachment of Richard Nixon.” Lecture at the University of Santa Clara Law Society by the former General Counsel of the House Judiciary Committee. 6 pages.
  • “American Character: Trial and Triumph,” Harper’s Magazine, October 1974. 118 pages.
  • “Watergate: Chronology of a Crisis.” Congressional Quarterly. 1973. 291 pages.
  • “Impeachment and the U.S. Congress.” Congressional Quarterly, 1974. 60 pages.
  • “Watergate: Its Implications for Responsible Government,” National Academy of Public Administration. March 1974. 143 pages.
  • “The Impeachment Vote,” Newsweek, August 5, 1974.
  • “Exclusive: Nixon’s Final Days. From the New Book by Woodward and Bernstein,” Newsweek AprilS, 1976.
  • “What You Should Know About Impeachment,” Skeptic, n. 49, May/June 1974.
  • Other assorted newspaper and magazine articles.