It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood

Inside the beltway, that is. Can you say "Watergate," boys and girls? Well, during the homonymous hearings, boys and girls, the following Nixon aides and neighbors were compelled to testify:

Bob Haldeman - White House Chief of Staff
John Ehrlichman - Presidential Assistant for Domestic Affairs
John Dean - White House Counsel
Gordon Strachan - Aide to Bob Haldeman
Robert Mardian - Assistant Attorney General
Jeb Magruder - Special Assistant to the President
et alii...

And I'm old enough to remember it, yet young enough to remember it well, boys and girls... Executive privilege, my ass, and up your hole with stare decisis, Mr. Bush.

Senator Insists Bush Aides Testify Publicly - New York Times

WASHINGTON, March 18 — The Democratic senator leading the inquiry into the dismissal of federal prosecutors insisted Sunday that Karl Rove and other top aides to President Bush must testify publicly and under oath, setting up a confrontation between Congress and the White House, which has said it is unlikely to agree to such a demand.

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