It was a rough Watergate week for President Nixon. A grand jury report and a satchel of evidence on his role in the cover-up conspiracy were turned over to the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment investigators. Then, after a short delay, Nixon backed down and submitted to a subpoena for more evidence from Leon Jaworski, the persistent special prosecutor, rather than face a new, and probably losing, court battle. Almost as surely, he will soon be forced to stop resisting similar requests from the impeachment committee for more tapes and documents.
Those setbacks...