The Nation - News from Feb. 3, 1987
Former President Richard M. Nixon intends to fight the release of his Watergate papers, set for May, his attorney told a federal court. Herbert J. Miller was before U.S. District Judge George H. Revercomb to support a 1986 Justice Department ruling that would force the National Archives to accept every claim of executive privilege by Nixon against the release of files. The archives gave 90-day notice last week that it intends to make public 1.5 million of the most sensitive documents.
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