ABSTRACT
On 24 July 1974, the Supreme Court of the United States announced one of its most historic and fateful decisions: it declared in a unanimous judgment that the President, Richard M. Nixon, must release tape-recordings of conversations which would reveal his involvement in the Watergate cover-up. After spending a day debating whether to obey the highest court in the land, Nixon capitulated and admitted:
Those arguing my case, as well as those passing judgment on the case, did so with information that was incomplete and in some respects erroneous.1
