Reading Room Document

Dual-Purpose Presidential Advisers

This opinion concludes that the propoed arrangement of "dual-purpose" presidential advisors, who would both advise the president and be amenable to congressional demands for testimony, would erode the doctrine of executive privilege. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at https://justice.gov/olc/page/file/1225986/download.

August 11, 1977