Reading Room Document
Immunity of Presidential Assistants from being required to testify before Congressional Committees
This memo, which accompanied a previously-published memo transmitted to the White House counsel on the same day, explained that presidential assistant Peter Flanigan would not appear before Congress if invited to testify. The OLC argued that refusals to testify on their official duties were “fundamental to our system of government.”
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