| United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1897 - 722 pages
...performing one of the most salutary duties of his office. An inquiry might be arrested at its first stage and the officers whose conduct demanded investigation...branch in the performance of a duty purely executive. It can not be that the only test is whether the information relates to a legitimate subject of deliberation.... | |
| United States. President - United States - 1897 - 572 pages
...performing one of the most salutary duties of his office. An inquiry might be arrested at its first stage and the officers whose conduct demanded investigation...branch in the performance of a duty purely executive. It can not be that the only test is whether the information relates to a legitimate subject of deliberation.... | |
| Mark J. Rozell - Executive privilege (Government information) - 1994 - 222 pages
...deprive him at once of the means of performing one of the most salutary duties of his office. . . . To require from the Executive the transfer of this...branch in the performance of a duty purely executive. (5:2075) President James K. Polk refused an 1846 House request for information pertaining to the foreign... | |
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